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PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON 
HONORARY PRESIDENT, THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 



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Contents 

PAGE 

Officers of the Philadelphia Council, B. S. A 7 

Letter from Col. Theodore Roosevelt 8 

The Scout Movement and the American Boy, by Charles Edwin Fox 9 

The Scout Law in Verse, by Harry C. Hochstadter 11 

Letter from Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg 13 

Report of Treasurer to Philadelphia Council 14 

List of Subscriptions 15 

The Boy Scout, by Dan Beard 17 

The Scout Spirit, by F. John Romanes 19 

The Scout Oath 22 

The Scout Law 23 

The Scout Movement in America, by James E. West 25 

The Scout Movement in Philadelphia, by J. W. Patton 29 

To Those Who Are Interested t>3 

Troops and Officers in Philadelphia 34 

Scouts Win Distinction 40 

A Fine Proof of Scoutcraft 41 

The First-class Scout — What He Is 42 

First-class Scouts in Philadelphia 44 

Merit Badge Holders in Philadelphia 46 

Billy Woods — How He Became a Tenderfoot, by H. W. Rolston 49 

A I 'lea for Leaders, by F. John Romanes 58 

( )ver-night I likes, by Orlando Crease, Jr 63 

Scout Games that Instruct, by 1 1. R. Roney 65 

The Nautical Troop 69 

Pequea Camp 71 

I 'equea Camp Scenes 72 

Treasure Island — the New Cam]) for Philadelphia Scouts y^, 

Camping, by Walter Scott Cowing 79 

First Aid, by Dr. Hubley R. Owen X7 

The Scout in Athletics, by T. Truxtun 1 hire 90 

Folk Misunderstood, by Samuel Scoville, Jr 92 



Philadelphia Headquarters 

Boy Scouts of Airveric^. 

INDEPENDENCE HALL 

S. W. Corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets 
TELEPHONE, LOMBARD 938 



OFFICERS 

Chairman Scout Commissioner 

CHARLES EDWIN FOX GEORGE D. PORTER 

Secretary Treasurer Boy Scout Fund 

ROY SMITH WALLACE E. T. STOTESBURY 

Treasurer Field Commissioner 

HARRY M. HART J. WOODBRIDGE PATTON 

EXECUTIVE SCOUT COUNCIL 

DR. JESSE D. BURKS 

WALTER S. COWING 

ECKLEY B. COXE, Jr. 

ORLANDO CREASE, Jr. 
LOUIS M. FLEISHER WILLIAM O. EASTON 

WM. INNES FORBES 

CHARLES EDWIN FOX 

FRANCIS GOODHUE 
DR. CHARLES D. HART T. TRUXTUN HARE 

HARRY M. HART 

CHARLES LONGSTRETH 

DR. R. TAIT McKENZIE 
THOMAS MARTINDALE DR. EDWARD MARTIN 

EDWARD deV. MORRELL 

J. CHESTON MORRIS 

GEORGE SPENCER MORRIS 

DR. HUBLEY R. OWEN 
WILLIAM W. ROPER GEORGE D. PORTER 

WILLIAM A. STECHER 

SAMUEL SCOVILLE, Jr. 

CHARLES T. WALKER 

ROY SMITH WALLACE 

ALEXANDER M. WILSON 




OFFICERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL 



K..y Smith Wallace, Secretary 
Charles Edwin Fox, Chairman 
E. T. Stotesbury, Treasurer Poy Scout Fund 



Harry M. Hart, Tieasurer 

George D. Porter, Scout Commissioner 

I. W. Patton, Field Commissioner 



RECEIVED 

APR 16 1913 



T 1 ?? Outlook 

287 Fourth Avenue 
New York 



Office of 
Theodore Roosevelt 



April 12th 1913. 



Dear Mr Pattern: 

Through you I wish to prflflt the boy scouts and to 
express my hearty belief in and admiration of the work 
they are doing. Jt was Mr Dan Beard \;ho first spoke to 
me of this movement;, whan I was Presi rlpnt , and from that 
time to this J have believed in It with all my heart. 7 
believe In work, and I believe in play: I believe in 
drudgery when drudgery is necessary; and 1 n the love of 
adventure also. Above all I believe that the American 
citizen of the future should be brave and hardy, that he 
should possess personal prowess, and that he should 
possess also the spirit which puts personal prowess at 
the nervine of the commonwealth; which is another ray of 
sayinp that he must be law-abiding i and have considera- 
tion for t h° eights and feelings of others. The boy 
scout movement is pre-eminently successful along all 
trhese different lines. 

Good luck to you all! 

Fai thf ully yours , 



Mr J. w. P.-tton, 

Boy Scouts of America, 
Philadelphia, Pa 



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By CHARLES EDWIN FOX 



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f LOSE observation of the hundreds of lads who have been 
haled before the bar of the Juvenile Court for the past four 
| years has brought me to the conclusion that there was one 
underlying" cause for about fifty per cent, of their offences, 
grave or gay, as they might be., It was this : They did not have 
adequate opportunity for play, and so they fell into one form or an- 
other of mischief that brought them afoul of the law. 

Others assign much more formidable-sounding- reasons, such as 
"heredity" or "environment" or "adenoids" or "high-grade feeble- 
mindedness." But really I cannot use words that sound more serious 
than these — "lack of play." 

To my mind these words are quite serious enough. 

For they are an indictment not of the boy before the court, but 
of the community which sent him there. 

Given an average young American citizen of the Juvenile Court 
age (up to sixteen), and Ik- is bound to have an outlet for all that 
splendid energy and enthusiasm and sheer love of living that is the 
very fibre of his being. All of us grow more or less sentimental over 
the abstract thought of Youth, because of its light-heartedness, its 
lack of responsibility, its pleasure in the simple joys, and all that sort 
of thing. 

lint do we all make this idea a concrete one by giving Youth, 
born and imprisoned in the city, an opportunity to breathe purer air 
than the city contains? In short, do we give Youth a chance to play? 

In her wonderful exposition of "The Spirit of Youth and the 
City Streets," Jane Addams says tin's: "The spontaneous joy, the 
clamor for pleasure, the desire of the young people to appear finer 
and better and altogether more lovely than they really are. the ideal 
ization not only of each other bul of the whole earth which they regard 



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as a theatre for their noble exploits, the unworldly ambitions, the 
romantic hopes, the make-believe world in which they live, if prop- 
erly utilized, what might they not do to make our sordid cities more 
beautiful, more companionable !" 

These words convey the ideal of the Scout movement. 

In its first analysis (and really, when we come to think of it, in 
its last analysis ) it is merely a system of play. If it stopped there 
and went no further, it would have its great value. The real need 
of affording city youth the opportunity of play for play's own sake 
needs no more than mere mention, now that the Playground move- 
ment is firmly entrenched in all of our big cities and, in Philadelphia, 
has given rise to a separate municipal department with constantly 
expanding usefulness. 

But the Scout movement goes further than this. Play is not its 
end-all, but rather a means to large and vital ends that touch on every 
phase of uplift of the growing boy and especially of the boy surrounded 
by all of the narrowing — yes, the debasing — influences of the city 
streets. It utilizes the attractive machinery that scoutcraft affords 
(and in scoutcraft is included woodcraft and campcraft and chivalrous 
adventure, and in fact almost everything that has appealed to the 
best in boyhood since the world was young). Thereby it ennobles 
those primitive instincts in the average boy which the influences of 
the city streets would otherwise demoralize. Thereby it leads the boy 
to do deeds of action out in the fields and woods, beside quiet streams, 
rather than to see deeds of action in the moving-picture palace. 
Thereby it turns his efforts toward becoming a tenderfoot or a second- 
class Scout or a first-class Scout, or gaining "awards of merit." These 
same instincts for action are otherwise announced as "larceny" or 
"forcible entry" or "malicious mischief" in the Juvenile Court. 

The wise men of Greece thought it well to give their best thought 
over many centuries to the perpetuation of the greatest system of play 
for their young people that the world has ever seen. 

Our wise and good men, who have uplifted a phase of modern 
administration of law by creating the Juvenile Court, have now to 
go a step further and consider the establishment of those preventive 
forces that can anticipate the efforts of this same court. 

I earnestly urge the extension of every facility for play as one 
of the most potent of these preventive forces. And let it be the play 
of Boy Scouts wherever possible. 



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"In so far as men have acted upon the conclusion that it is no 
longer necessary for the municipality to provide for the insatiable 
desire for play," says Jane Addams in the essay quoted above, "they 
have entered upon a most dangerous experiment; and this at the 
very moment when the city has become distinctly industrial and daily 
labor is continually more monotonous and subdivided. We forget 
how new the modern city is, and how short the span in which we 
have assumed that we can eliminate public provision for recreation." 



The Scout Law in Verse 

The following verses, written by Scoutmaster Harry C. Hoch- 
stadter, of Troop 97, Philadelphia, have attracted widespread atten- 
tion. They give the twelve Scout Laws in their proper order and in a 
form that makes them easy to remember: 

A Scout's first watchword is, "BE TRUE," 

LOYAL, where loyality is due; 
Each day there's ONE GOOD TURN well done; 

All Scouts are BROTHERS; FRIENDS ev'ry one. 
He's COURTEOUS like the knight of old. 

Disdains therefor all touch of gold : 
To all God's creatures KIND is he ; 

OBEYS all due authority. 

Oh, happy CHEERFUL, healthy boy! 

Thy SMILE lights earth with wholesome joy! 
Then, too, he's THRIFTY, also BRAVE, 

Can fight for right against the knave; 
He's CLEAN in body, CLEAN in thought. 

REVERES God's words and things Me wrought. 

All better things PREPARED to trail, 

Obey these laws: you cannot fail! 




RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG 

MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA 

HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 



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OUOOLPH BLANKENBURO MSY 1 1913, 



Mr. J. Yfoodbridge Patton, 
5CC Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia. 

Dear LIr. Patton: - 

It is because the manly boy of today rill be 
the manly man of tomorrow that I send, from my heart, 
greetings and good wishes to the Boy Scouts. This 
government has met and conquered difficulties which the 
enemies of democracy predicted would wreck it. It has 
been successful because in each crisis a resourceful 
man was on hand to lead, to protect; and this resourceful 
man was, nearly always, one who had learned from contact 
with nature and in contest withv difficulties power to 
think straight, act quick, hit hard, in defending his 
own rights and the rights of others. 

Cur Uation is now concentrating in cities; 
we have no longer a frontier; increase in wealth has 
removed the mass of our people from necessity for those 
early struggles out of which developed our leaders and 
defenders. The Boy Scout movement carries the new 
generation back to the country, teaches resourcefulness, 
self-control, consideration for others. By making 
brave men it makes for peace; for the brave man is never 
the bully, and it if the act of a bully which generally 
brings about war between nations. 

In every way, then, the Boy Scout movement 
makes for better citizenship and hastens the day of 
universal peace. May it grow and prosper - that is 
my wish and hope. 



Sincerely jfeurs. 




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Treasurer's Report 

Cash received since the organization of Philadelphia Executive 
Scout Council, February, 19.11, to May 1, 1913: 

RECEIPTS 

Subscriptions (as per itemized report) $14,633.65 

Delaware and Montgomery Counties' Refund 1/5-20 

T, Leo Tierney, Camp Fund 3.23 

Merchandise, sale of handbooks, badges, knives, axes, etc. 1,398.52 

Interest on deposits 40.78 

TOTAL RECEIPTS " $16,251.38 

DISBURSEMENTS 

Furniture and equipment $364.10 

Camp expenses (tents, dishes, cooking, etc.) 866.42 

Merchandise (literature, merit badges, handbooks, 

badges, axes, knives, flags, kits, etc.) 1,579.11 

Office — Rent $375-00 

Printing, etc 1,039.88 

Telephone 189.42 

Typewriter 50.00 

Medals, paperhanging, gas and signs 125.42 

O. K. Addressing Co 66.60 

Postage 670.19 

Sundry items 407.45 

Traveling expenses 158-38 

3,082.34 

Salaries — T. Leo Tierney $4,600.00 

Secretaries 1,665.00 

Stenographer 93 2 -75 

Vacation salaries 70.00 

Janitor and cleaner 388.25 

■ 7,656.00 

Entertainment — Rent of halls and films .... $536.00 
Lecturers and their enter- 
tainment 565.76 

Philadelphia Patrol to Wash- 
ington and return 4 2 -53 

Printing and postage 263.25 

O. K. Addressing Co 100.00 

Band 25.00 

Field Day 40.00 

Sundry items 1 4^>-7S 

1,719.29 

TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS ~ 15,267.26 

Balance in hand of E. T. Stotesbury, Treasurer 979. 10 

Balance in hand of Secretary 5.02 

$16,251.38 



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ITEMIZED REPORT OF SUBSCRIPTIONS 



Ecklev B. Coxe, Jr $1000.00 

E. T. Stotesbury 500.00 

W. Hinckle Smith 500.00 

Lit Brothers 45°-°° 

W. S. Yare 35°-°° 

Chas. and Ellis A. Gimbel .... 350.00 

Alfred, Benj. and Louis Wolf 350.00 

R. L. Montgomery 350.00 

Joseph Snellenburg 200.00 

C. M. Clark 200.00 

G. W. Burnham, Jr 200.00 

Walter Pierson 200.00 

Thos. E. Brown 200.00 

A. J. D. Paul 150.00 

Samuel Snellenburg 150.00 

J. W. Converse 145-00 

Lydia J. Clark 135-Qo 

Chas. S. Walton 125.00 

Livingstone S. Jones 125.00 

G. W. Xorris 1 10.00 

H. W. Harrison 1 10.00 

R. L. Austin 110.00 

Asa W. Yandegrift 110.00 

B. F. H. Shibe 105.00 

Alfred C. Garrett 100.00 

Straw-bridge & Clothier .... 100.00 

Henry R. Hatfield 100.00 

Edgar Scott 100.00 

Randal Morgan 100.00 

Sarah Drexel Yan Rensselaer 100.00 

Geo. H. Frazier 100.00 

W. B. Kurtz 100.00 

Geo. D. M'cCreary 100.00 

Thos. F. Armstrong 100.00 

Wm. L. McKean 100.00 

Comers Button 100.00 

Jay Cooke, 3d 100.00 

Nelson Z. Graves 100.00 

Henry L. Davis 100.00 

H. LaBarre Jayne 100.00 

J. Kearsly Mitchell. 3d.... 100.00 

C. E. Fox 100.00 

Isidor Langsdorf 100.00 

W. R. Nicholson 100.00 

J. G. Rosengarten 100.00 

T. DeWitt Cuyler 100.00 

Alfred E. Burk 100.00 

W. Wood and S. Wood. . . . 100.00 

Alfred C. Harrison 100.00 

Alba B. Johnson 100.00 

Thos. P. Hunter 100.00 

J. B. Townsend, Jr 100.00 



J. Franklin McFadden $100.00 

C. C. Harrison ioo.co 

Connie Mack 100.00 

E. B. Morris 100.00 

J. M. Dodge 100.00 

G. W. C. Drexel 100.00 

P. A. B. Widener 100.00 

J. H. Carstairs 100.00 

John Gribbel 100.00 

George D. Widener 100.00 

Thos. Dolan 100.00 

John Mcllhenny 100.00 

Charles Wheeler 100.00 

S. M. Yauclain 100.00 

Percy H. Clark 100.00 

J. B". McCall 100.00 

George F. Tyler 100.00 

Robert A. Balfour 100.00 

Charles W. Bailey 100.00 

James T. Bailey 100.00 

Joshua L. Bailey 100.00 

Morris R. Bockius 100.00 

Alex. Yan Rensselaer 100.00 

Howard Fuguet 100.00 

Samuel S. Fels 100.00 

John M. Whitall 100.00 

Wm. L. Austin 100.00 

Jos. H. Bromley 100.00 

C. M. Clarke 100.00 

Eli Kirk Price 100.00 

Joseph M. Steele 100.00 

Percy H. Chandler 100.00 

Walter J. Cooper 100.00 

Ed. deV. Morrell 100.00 

Alfred G. B. Lewis 100.00 

Mrs. E. W. Henry 100.00 

Samuel T. Bodine 100.00 

Thomas Martindale 90.00 

Wm. H. Hollar 75-QO 

Thos. E. Brown 75-°° 

C. A. Herrick 60.00 

E. Cope 50.00 

Henry S. Jeanes 50.00 

A. J. Drexel Biddle 50.00 

J. Milton Colton, Jr 50.00 

< i. \\ . Bi idine 50.00 

Arthur 1 1. Lea 50.00 

J. P. Keating 50.00 

John Wanamaker 50.00 

Louis Murk 50.00 

Robert F. Whitmar 50.00 

I. L. Watson (Jacob Reed's) 50.00 



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Stevens Heckscher $50.00 

Wm. A. Hollar 50.00 

Wm. Burnham 50.00 

Mrs. G. W. C. Drexel 40.15 

John S. Jenks 40.00 

W. D. Winsor 40.00 

A. A. Bliss 35-QO 

J. A. Brown, Jr 35.00 

John L. Coxe 30.00 

M'. E. Leeds 30.00 

Chas. D. Hart : 25.00 

Richard Wain Meirs 25.00 

T. William Roberts 25.00 

W. P. Stewart 25.00 

T. L. Davis 25.00 

Maria C. Scattergood 25.00 

Russell Duane 25.00 

Henry G. Brengle 25.00 

F. M. Brewer . 25.00 

James Boyd 25.00 

James J. Quigley 25.00 

Geo. B. Wells 25.00 

F. B. Reeves 20.00 

Miss M. M. Hart 20.00 

A. N. Leeds 20.00 

J. C. Jones 20.00 

John B. Garrett 20.00 

R. M. Hartley 15.00 

Howard N. Lewis 15.00 

E. W. Clark, 3d I5-00 

H. M. Hart . .' 15.00 

M. D. Huey 12.50 

Louis Gerstley 10.00 

S. P. Wetherill 10.00 

Cash 10.00 

H. E. Mott 10.00 

F. C. Griscom 10.00 

Walter K. Ludwig 10.00 

J. A. L. Bailey 10.00 

H. B. Rosengarten 10.00 

W. H. Staake 10.00 

P. F. Hallahan 10.00 

Louis Taws 10.00 

M'. C. Norris 10.00 

Mrs. Craig D. Ritchie 10.00 

E. P. Morris 10.00 

Geo. C. Thayer 10.00 

Arthur A. Fleisher 10.00 

B. F. Pepper 10.00 

W. H. Rometsch 7.00 



Francis Stokes $7.00 

Chas. W. Lloyd 6.00 

Cash 5.00 

C. M. Kline 5.00 

F. B. W. Morgan 5.00 

Cash 5.00 

Cash 5.00 

E. A. Souder 5.00 

Agnes Richardson 5.00 

T. H. Shoemaker. 5.00 

Robert Kaign 5.00 

W. E. Cooper 5.00 

S. A. Sands ' 5.00 

Jos. Scott 5.00 

Maria L. Harrison 5.00 

O. R. Maynard 5.00 

J. C. Gilpin 5.00 

C. B. Penrose 5.00 

Ed. S. Buckley, Jr 5.00 

F. A. Rakestraw 5.00 

L. Buck 5.00 

L. H. Lowry 5.00 

A. Thomas 5.00 

T. B. Harned 5.00 

Prevost & Herring 5.00 

E. T- Schoettle 5.00 

B. F. Bells 5.00 

J. A. Harris, Trustee 5.00 

F. W. Tunnell 5.00 

Lillian M. Lacy 5.00 

Herbert Welsh 5.00 

C. F. Molloy 5.00 

Henry Winsor 5.00 

W. H. Carpenter 5.00 

W. Harrison Smith 5.00 

Alice M'cF. Brinton 5.00 

W. Arnett, Jr 3.00 

E. A. Blanton, Jr 3.00 

H. H. Smith 3.00 

J. Carr 2.50 

E. W. Smith . 2.00 

Clarissa E. Landell 2.00 

C. Beamish 2.00 

Cash 2.00 

J. C. Brown 1.50 

Mary I. Lacy 1.00 

F. R. Taylor 1.00 

H. C. Potter, Jr 1.00 

T. J. Keon 1.00 

Cash 1. 00 



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The Boy Scout 



By DAN BEARD 




BOY SCOUT is never wishy-washy; he never slops over. 
He is normal, healthy, honorable, straightforward and 
honest. He loves all nature and natural things because 
it is right and normal for him to do so, but he is not what 
is known as a "zoophile" — that is, he does not love a dog, a cat, a 
woodchuck or a cow more than he does a human being. He looks 
at things squarely and does not lose the proper perspective. 

There are a lot of weak-minded human beings who spend their 
money and their time and their sympathy on sick cats and mangy 
dogs. They look at these things so closely that the big problems of 
life are dwarfed in comparison to the miseries of the poor, wretched 
animals. 

Now, fellow Scouts, remember that the man who is talking- to 
you this way has been a lover of animals all his life; but he loved 
them as animals and not as babies and children. 

Never be cruel to anything, but do not think it cruel to kill a 
chicken when you need one for dinner. It is no more cruel for you 
to kill it in a proper manner than it is for you to hire some one else 
to do it for you. As long as civilized beings eat meat, just so long- 
will it be necessary for us to kill animals; and the more domestic 
animals there are killed for the market, the more domestic animals 
will the farmers breed to supply their places. 

But every wild animal killed, be it bird, mammal or fish, just 
makes one wild animal less in the world. Consequently Boy Scouts 
are very chary about unnecessarily killing wild creatures. Our dear 
mammas and our dear sisters and our dear sweethearts have wiped 
out of existence many of our most beautiful birds simply because they 
wanted to wear their badly upholstered remains as gristly and grue- 
some ornaments on their hats and heads. 

But Boy Scouts stand for Conservation and the saving of our 
wild life, our forests and our plants. They hesitate even to gather 



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any quantity of wild flowers, because they know every wild flower 
gathered is so many seeds less for the next crop. 

This is not foolish and wishy-washy sentimentality. It is simply 
common sense, because they recognize the fact that there are now so 
many, many thousands of people in our country that, if they all started 
to pick wild flowers, or if they all started to kill or pluck any wild 
thing, they would wipe that thing right out of existence. By wild 
flowers, of course, I do not refer to daisies and goldenrods and all 
those prolific, beautiful weeds that thrive on our country roadsides, 
but I refer to the delicate little flowers like the moccasin flower, 
improperly called lady-slipper, and the bloodroot, the fringed gentian, 
the cardinal flower, all of which stand in grave danger of being exter- 
minated. 

We want all these beautiful things in this world and need them; 
we want everything - that there is that is useful in supplying our needs 
and is useful in adding to the pleasure of life; but the most impor- 
tant conservation is that in which the Boy Scouts of America are 
engaged. That is the great work of conserving our boys, the most 
valuable crop produced in this country and the one that has been 
neglected the most. 

Good luck to you all. Good luck to your councils, good luck to 
your troops, good luck to your patrols, and health and happiness to 
every one of you Boy Scouts. 

Hastily yours, 





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The Scout Spirit 



By F. JOHN ROMANES 

Scoutmaster Troop 87, Philadelphia. Sometime Commissioner for Denver 



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^jjx&j HE glory of romance, the ancient and long-forgotten ideal 
of the true knights of chivalry, is the secret of the Boy 
Scout movement throughout the world. [f ever there 
was an adventure, the first meal cooked by the tenderfoot 
is one — for no man knoweth the end of it ! 

The high ideal of the Boy Scout training — the daily service — is 
so often made poor and weak because the Scout is taught it as an 
obligation to he fulfilled once a day at the most, reported upon and 



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criticised by the leader. This is far away from the romance of service 
which should be in every well-trained Boy Scout. 

It is sometimes said that the Scout training has two sides to it, 
and in a measure this is true — the practical and the ethical. But 
there is only one true aim of the whole Scout work — service for 
others. 

If this ideal could be in the mind of the Scoutmaster as he gives 
the tenderfoot the first lesson in firebuilding, if this could be the 
thought in the Scout's mind as he tramps his fourteen-mile hike, this, 
the highest form of work, the whole Scout movement would become 
so mighty a power that we who lead it, however small our part in it 
may be, would stand hesitating at our responsibilities. 

But now, alas ! being but a movement with uniform and organi- 
zation, rules and reports, all necessary admittedly, and controlled 
often by practical men and not theorists (thanks be for that!), we 
find ourselves teaching the boy to cook because it is a good thing to 
know how to cook, to render first aid so that he may add one more 
badge to the collection his Troop already has, and to have a dollar 
in the bank to avoid asking his folks for camp money. 

Some may think it too hard a matter to teach boys of all natures 
and nations the ideals of chivalry and self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice — 
not in the spirit of the martyr, but because the boy has found that 
to render help to the needy is the readiest road to his own happiness — 
is not so hard a matter with boys who are still not more than fourteen 
years old in spirit. Every boy of fourteen or thereabouts plays Jim 
Hawkins and Treasure Island if he is left unlaughed at for it. He 
has the seed of Romance of Service in him by nature. It is ridicule 
and the instinct of acquisition which often destroy the finer spirit. 

The Scoutmaster's chief business should be to encourage, stimu- 
late and keep alive the high notions of service which stir the boy's 
imaginations. 

And here comes in the grand usefulness of the hike and camp. 
The adventure of a hike may be increased tenfold if at the start, or, 
better still, on the night before, the Scoutmaster raises the question 
of the chivalry each member of the troop is going in search of during 
the coming day. Hunting in couples with a chosen companion for 
adventure ! Real adventures, not all play Indians and make-believe, 
but the laurel wreath of some stranger's thanks, whether of the human 
kind or of the animal kingdom matters little ! 



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TEACHING LIFE SAVING TO SCOUTS 



Then round the campfire the strange tales of the history of other 
knights and pioneers, of the old hunters in the wilderness, of the 
heroes of the country in peace or war, men who have gone forth like 
Captain Scott or Captain Oates, ready to suffer and die the loneliest 
of deaths for the sake of Knowledge and companions! 

And the talk drifts on to the present time, the needs of the great 
city, the call for service in the community and nation. Then the 
Scouts, when they lie between the blankets, with the stars overhead, 
hear the night wind whispering deeds of greatness and prowess which 
they will accomplish for the Commonwealth when their time comes. 

The Spirit of Service is what is most needed in the country — 
nay, in the world — to-day. If we Scoutmasters fail to grasp the 
Opportunity, offered to us in the Scout training, to instill into the 
growing generation something of these ideals because we shrink from 
the task through cowardice, indifference or sloth, we shall be incur- 
ring a grave responsibility and it will be bard to find adequate excuses 
for our failure when the final reckoning arrives. 



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COMMISSIONER GEORGE D. PORTER AT PEOUEA CAMP 



The Scout Oath 

Before he becomes a Scout a boy must promise : 

On my honor I will do my best: 

1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the 
Scout law; 

2. To help other people at all times; 

3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and 
morally straight. 

When taking this oath, the Scout will stand, holding up his right 
hand, palm to the front, thumb resting on the nail of the little finger and 
the other three fingers upright and together. 

The Scout Sign 

This is the Scout sign. The three fingers held up remind him of 
his three promises in the Scout oath. 

The Scout Salute 

When the three fingers thus held are raised to the forehead, it is the 
Scout salute. 

The Scout always salutes an officer. 



The Scout Motto 

The motto of the Boy Scouts is Be Prepared, and the badge is a 
copyrighted design with this motto, "Be Prepared," on a scroll at its base. 

The motto, "Be Prepared.'' means that the Scout 
is always in a state of readiness in mind and body to 
do his duty. 

To be prepared in mind, by having disciplined 
himself to be obedient, and also by having thought 
out beforehand any accident or situation that may 
occur, so that he may know the right thing to do at 
the right moment, and be willing to do it. 

To be prepared in body, by making himself 
strong and active and able to do the right thing at 
the right moment, and then to do it. 

The Scout Badge 

The Scout badge is not intended to represent 
the fleur-de-lis, or an arrowhead. It is a modified form of the sign of the 
north on the mariner's compass, which is as old as the history of 
navigation. 

The trefoil refers to the three points in the Scout oath. 

Its scroll is turned up at the ends like a Scout's mouth, because he 
does his duty with a smile and willingly. 

The knot is to remind the Scout to do a °:ood turn to some one dailv. 




The Scout Law 



I. 


A 


Scout 


is 


trustworthy. 


2 


A 


Scout 


is 


loyal. 


3- 


A 


Scout 


is 


helpful. 


4- 


A 


Scout 


is 


friendly. 


5- 


A 


Scout 


is 


courteous. 


6. 


A 


Scout 


is 


kind. 


7- 


A 


Scout 


i- 


obedient. 


8. 


A 


Scout 


is 


cheerful. 


9- 


A 


So >ut 


is 


thrifty. 


IO. 


A 


Scout 


is 


brave. 


1 1. 


A 


Scout 


is 


clean. 


12. 


A 


Scan 


is 


reverent. 



i. A Scout is trustworthy. 

A Scout's honor is to be trusted. If he were to violate his honor by 
telling a lie. or by cheating, or by not doing exactly a given task, when 
trusted on his honor, lie may be directed to hand over hi- Scout badge. 

2. A Scout is loyal. 

He i- loyal to all to whom loyalty i- due: hi- Scout leader, his home, 
and parents and country. 



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3. A Scout is helpful. 

He must be prepared at any time to save life, help injured persons, and 
share the home duties. He must do at least one good turn to somebody 

EVERY DAY. 

4. A Scout is friendly. 

He is a friend to all and a brother to every other Scout. 

5. A Scout is courteous. 

He is polite to all, especially to women, children, old people, and the 
weak and helpless. He must not take pay for being helpful or courteous. 

6. A Scout is kind. 

He is a friend to animals. He will not kill nor hurt any living creature 
needlessly, but will strive to save and protect all harmless life. 

7. A Scout is obedient. 

He obeys his parents, Scout master, patrol leader, and all other duly 
constituted authorities. 

8. A Scout is cheerful. 

He obeys his parents, Scoutmaster, patrol leader, and all other duly 
cheery. He never shirks nor grumbles at hardships. 

9. A Scout is thrifty. 

He does not wantonly destroy property. He works faithfully, wastes 
nothing, and makes the best use of his opportunities. He saves his money 
so that he may pay his own way, be generous to those in need, and helpful 
to worthy objects. 

He may work for pay but must not receive tips for courtesies or 
good turns. 

10. A Scout is brave. 

He has the courage to face danger in spite of fear and has to stand up 
for the right against the coaxings of friends or the jeers or threats of 
enemies, and defeat does not down him. 

11. A Scout is clean. 

He keeps clean in body and thought, stands for clean speech, clean 
sport, clean habits, and travels with a clean crowd. 

12. A Scout is reverent. 

He is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties and 
respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion. 




The History of the Scout Movement 

in America 

By JAMES E. WEST 

Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America 
5 r* 

ifv c v&?l IKE other large efforts showing permanence and power. 
" the Scout movement can be traced back to widely separate 
(^ sources where constructive ideas came to boy workers and 
were tested with varying degrees of success. In this 
country and England a number of boy organizations based on these 
excellent ideas have been founded and efficiently developed, and have 
contributed more or less to the constructive elements of the Scout 
movement in America. 

Ernest Thompson Seton, our Chief Scout, headed one; Daniel 
Carter Beard, our National Scout Commissioner, headed another: 
Dr. William Bvron Forbush founded the Knights of King Arthur : 
and Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, realizing the necessity of training 
boys in citizenship and usefulness, organized the British Boy Scouts. 
This latter organization included in it, as contributing elements, the 
best of the concrete ideas previously adopted both in America and 
Great Britain by other boy workers. 

In the beginning of 1910, the idea of introducing the movement 
along lines similar to those of the English Boy Scouts, which had 
been organized in 1907 and developed under the personal supervision 
of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, was first pro- 
posed by Air. W. D. Boyce, of Chicago. It is significant that his 
interest was occasioned because of an actual service rendered him in 
true Scout spirit by a London Boy Scout, who. because of his obliga- 
tion to do a good turn daily and the rule against acceptance of t ; 
greatlv astonished and impressed Mr. Boyce. After conference with 
Sir Baden-Powell he secured the co-operation of friends in Wash- 
ington, D. C. and proceeded to ino'rporate an organization of the 
Boy Scouts of America under the laws of the Districl ><i Columbia. 
This was accomplished on February 8, r< > 10. 



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Prior to this time a number of Troops had been started in various 
parts of the country by men who had been impressed with the possi- 
bilities of the scheme through reading Lieutenant-General Sir Robert 
Baden-Powell's English handbook, "Scouting for Boys." Headquar- 
ters for the Boy Scouts of America were temporarily established at 
124 East Twenty-eighth Street, with the co-operation of representa- 
tives from a number of national organizations having headquarters 
in New York City. 

Simultaneously with this effort, other organizations established 
national headquarters for themselves. Happily, however, before the 
middle of July, 1910, all of these organizations, with the exception of 
the American Boy Scouts, merged with the Boy Scouts of America. 
It was largely through the efforts of Mr. Edgar M. Robinson that 
the different organizations were brought together. From the very 
beginning he saw the possibilities of the Scout movement; his wide 
experience in boys' work enabled him to give wise counsel in his 
endeavor to have the movement inaugurated under satisfactory con- 
ditions. 

The continuance of the former organization in the field proved 
to be a source of embarrassment and greatly retarded the proper 
development of the movement in this country. Furthermore, it was 
one of the important factors in causing a misunderstanding as to the 
true aims and objects of the movement, because too much emphasis 
was placed by the American Boy Scouts upon military drill and 
training. 

Through the influence of Adjutant-General Verbeck, one of our 
National Scout Commissioners, the National Scouts disbanded early 
in the year. 

Early in the summer of 19 10 it was deemed wise to secure for 
the movement a more representative and substantial backing. A con- 
ference was called of representatives from all existing organizations 
who might be interested in the development of this new organization. 
As a result of this meeting, at which thirty different existing organi- 
zations were represented, a committee on permanent organization was 
appointed. This committee consisted of Ernest Thompson Seton, 
Chairman; Lee F. Hanmer, Secretary; George D. Pratt, Treasurer; 
Dr. Luther H. Gulick, Jacob A. Riis, Edgar M. Robinson, Colin H. 
Livingstone, Daniel Carter Beard, Adjutant-General William Ver- 
beck and Colonel Peter S. Bomus. In accordance with its authority, 



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the committee invited men of national reputation and men with expe- 
rience in other organizations to serve as members of a National 
Council which, through an executive board, was given full power 
and authority to direct the movement. 

Fortunately, about that time the infant organization was honored 
by a visit from Lieutenant-General Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell. 
A dinner was arranged at the "Waldorf-Astoria in Xew York City. 
The presence of the General and the publicity gained did much to 
focus the attention of the American people on our organization as 
the real organization of the Bov Scout movement in this countrv. 

The demand for information from all parts of the country com- 
pelled the hasty production of a mass of literature giving an outline 
of the movement. Six bulletins were written and a revised edition 
of the English handbook for boys was hastily prepared under the 
direction of Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton. The organization will ever 
be under obligation to Mr. Seton for his unremitting zeal and effort 
to produce this book and for his willingness to send it out in an 
uncompleted form in order to meet the insistent requests from the 
field. 

President Taft cordially consented to serve as Honorary Presi- 
dent of the organization, and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as Honorary 
Vice-President. Colonel Roosevelt and Honorable Gifford Pinchot 
have become more closely identified with the movement by accepting 
membership on the Chief Scout Staff. Colonel Roosevelt as Chief Scout 
Citizen and Mr. Pinchot as Chief Scout Woodsman. Other men of 
national reputation accepted membership on the National Council. An 
unusual group of efficient men consented to serve as members of the 
Executive Board. They not only gave of their money freely, but gen- 
erously gave much time at this important period in the development 
of the movement. 

Beginning January I. 191 1, permanent headquarters were 
secured in the Fifth Avenue Building and an Executive Secretary 
was employed The first meeting of the National Council was held 
February 14th and 15th at Washington, D. C. The members assem- 
bled in the Fast Room of the White House and were addressed by 
President Taft. 

In connection with the meeting of the National Council there 
was a conference of Scoutmasters and Scout Commissioners. All 
meetings were well attended, and immediate steps were taken to 



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develop a permanent organization. It was the unanimous opinion of 
those present that different committees should carefully consider all 
phases of the movement as it had been developed in England and 
other countries, and thus determine what revision, if any, was needed 
in the Scout oath, law, requirements and equipment. 

Every effort has been made by the leaders of the Scout movement 
to keep National Headquarters ahead of the growth of the organiza- 
tion throughout the country. In the spring of 191 1 a new handbook 
for boys was issued, and already several hundred thousand copies 
have been sold. The handbook for Scoutmasters was prepared and 
a proof copy sent free to the Scoutmasters throughout the United 
States. This handbook, however, has been revised. A Scout service 
bureau has been established at Headquarters to supply in every way 
possible the equipment needs of the Scouts and their leaders. In every 
way possible a study has been made to meet the needs of the boys. 

In addition, the organization purchased Boys' Life magazine and 
have made it the official publication of the Scouts. It is likely that 
within a short, time a Scoutmasters' bulletin will also be issued. In 
this effort to build up the Scout movement to meet the needs of the 
boys and to keep the Scoutmasters in touch with scouting affairs there 
are at present fifty-six employees working in the National Headquar- 
ters. The cost of administration is $60,000 a year. 

That the Scout movement has been growing steadily is shown 
by the fact that there are now almost 10,000 men who have secured 
commissions as Scoutmasters and Assistants from Headquarters 
during the last three years. Of course a number of those men have 
become inactive and have been stricken from the rolls. There are, 
however, 8200 Scoutmasters and Assistants leading Scout Troops 
throughout the country, and it is estimated that these men have 
charge of more than 300,000 boys. 




The Boy Scout Movement 
in Philadelphia 

By J. W. PATTON, Field Commissioner 




O MOVEMENT for boys in the history of the world has 
ever made such a beginning as has that of the Scouts. 
While only three years old in America, and two and one- 
half years old in Philadelphia, there are at the present 
time, under well-organized and efficient leadership, in this city no less 
than 3000 Boy Scouts of America. 

The movement had its inception locally during the summer of 
1910, when Air. George D. Porter, now Director of Public Safety, 
was requested by the minister of his church to secure information 
in regard to boys' work for the younger lads. He investigated the 
Scout movement started by Baden-Powell in England. 

So favorably impressed was Air. Porter with the merits of the 
organization that he took steps at once to introduce the movement 
to his church and vicinity. So many calls came to him for informa- 
tion in regard to the new idea in boys' work that in January of 191 1 
he was compelled almost in self-defence to organize a local council 
and see to the employment of a permanent secretary. The interest 
taken was so great that by the time Philadelphia Headquarters were 
opened on the first floor of 1309 Arch Street no less than forty Troops 
were actively enrolled in the movement. 

Interest increased until Field Day, in June, when the first annual 
rally was held at Carpenter's Woods, in Gennaniown. So successful 
was this feature of the Scout-" program that lasl year, as well as this, 
has seen a repetition of this event. 

By lulv 1st there were a score more Troops in Philadelphia, 
continuing in interest through the heated period. In the fall ol on 1 
a series of lectures was inaugurated for the buys at the Central High 
School, and this feature has kept up through the winter months. 



Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Martindale. Mr. Cowing, Mr. Bushnell. Miss 
Dora Keen. Mr. Stone and others have given most generously of their 
time and talents in lecturing for this great movement. 

In 1 91 2 there were more than one hundred active Troops scat- 
tered in all parts of the city, with interest at a high pitch. Then 
came Baden-Powell, who addressed an enormous mass rally of boys 
in February at the Metropolitan Opera House, where he aroused 
interest in the movement, continuing to the present time. The second 
annual Field Day was held at Cobb's Creek Park, with a number of 
Troops under canvas, a large and varied program of activities, and 
at the end the distribution of a really great number of prizes as well 
as merit badges. 

Going back to July. 191 1. it would be an injustice to make no 
mention of the large summer camp held at Pequea. This camp was 
attended by upwards of 350 boys, who for the most part returned in 
191 2 to a fuller enjoyment of this garden spot on the Susquehanna. 

As the carfare to Pequea was a barrier to many of the city 
Troops. Treasure Island, which is fully described on other pages, 
has just been leased from the owner, a Scoutmaster of this city, where, 
during the summer, any Boy Scout from Philadelphia and vicinity 
will be welcomed and made comfortable in the picturesque kind of 
camp so dear to the hearts of boys who like the water and woods 
and roughing it to a certain degree on their own resources. Proper 
supervision will at all times be given, not only to the culinary branch, 
the swimming and boating, but also to the hygienic arrangements, 
under the inspection of a duly qualified physician. 

While the movement is in no sense a sectarian or denominational 
affair, great credit must be given to the churches in which a very 
large majority of the local Troops have their headquarters. Prot- 
ants for the most part, with many Roman Catholic boys and Jewish 
Scouts, and meeting places in almost every conceivable kind of head- 
quarters, it can readily be seen that, were it not for the churches 
themselves, comparatively few Troops would exist at the present 
time. Many of the Troops, such a- Numbers 1, 6, 17. 29, I-'.} and 
others, have Chaplains who conduct services for the boys at stated 
interval-. 

The committee in charge of the movement has grown not only 
in representative character but in number from a small body of fifteen 
to its present magnitude of twenty-seven. The Council meets from 



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time to time, mostly by committees, reporting to the executive body 
in Mr. Porter's office, and sometimes at a Council dinner, when the 
whole evening can be given to the discussion of the many-sided boy 
problems in our city. 

During the summer of 191 2 Mr. Charles Longstreth organized 
a Nautical Patrol, taking the boys in his yacht Arawan II to the 
eastern end of Long Island, where they acquitted themselves with 
credit to their leader and to the movement in general. Having no 
experience whatever on the sea, these boys nevertheless learned to 
manage small boats, to steer by compass, read charts and, to cap the 
climax, to swim 'way out on the ocean. The cruise will be repeated 
this summer on an even greater scale than last year. 

More than interesting among the, Scouts of the city are the boys 
of Troop 118, of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, who have 
made good progress during the year just ending under Mr. Moter 
and an assistant who cannot see. 

The First Troop of Philadelphia has the most boys and is one of 
the most active in the city. 

The hikes into the country on Saturday afternoons have been in 
reality the most attractive feature to the boys themselves. Such gen- 
tlemen as Messrs. George Spencer Morris, Samuel Scoville, Jr., 
George D. Porter, Thomas Martindale, Walter Cowing and others 
have in person conducted nature study with Troops in the open, where 
the boys' hearts open to the Scout program as it does nowhere else. 

When on the hike the boys do not simply march along, but have 
many games of quick sight, far and near and others. Sometimes a 
group is sent ahead to keep signaling the interesting things for those 
who follow, while a rear guard looks out for lost articles, sometimes 
dropped by the Scoutmasters to test the boys' alertness for what can 
be recovered. 

The trees, the birds, the flowers, the rock formations, etc., all 
come in for a share of the boys' attention and knowledge of nature. 

These hikes are in vogue in Philadelphia more than any other 
city. The one held April 26th was for first-class Scouts only, and 
served greatly to stimulate the ambition of boys who had not yet 
won even a second-class emblem. 



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THE FIRST UNIFORMED TROOP IN PENNSYLVANIA 

SCOUTMASTER (NOW FIELD COMMISSIONER) J. W. PATTON FORMED THIS BAND OF KOYS WHICH HAS 

GROWN INTO THE PRESENT TROOP 21 



To Those Who Are Interested 



It js the hope of the Philadelphia Council that this book will 
reach man}- who have never had an opportunity to learn of the true 
aims of the Boy Scouts of America. 

The articles appearing' here were designed to explain fully and 
clearly just how valuable the movement is in conserving the boy, how 
simple it is to start a Troop, the great rewards that come from such 
work and the vast need that there is for more workers in the field. 

Are you interested? Would you like to know more about the 
conditions in your own neighborhood? 

Local Headquarters are in the historic Supreme Court at Fifth 
and Chestnul Streets — the easterly wing of Independence I fall. Some 
official is always there. Drop in and talk it over. Or write and get 
the information yon want. 



BiBSBE 



eceoik 



Troops and Officers in Philadelphia 



'innrm 



TROOP NO. 



HEADQUARTERS 



I. Tioga Presbyterian Church, 
16th and Tioga Sts. 



3. First Presbyterian Church of 

Germantown, 39 W. Chel- 
ten Ave. 

4. Westside Presbyterian 

Church, Winona and Pu- 
laski Aves. 

6. West Hope Presbyterian 

Church, Preston and Aspen 
Sts. 

7. Central Y. M. C. A., 1421 

Arch St. 
9. St. Martha's Settlement 
House, 2029 South 8th St. 

10. Prince of Peace Episcopal 

Church, 22d and Morris 
Sts. 

11. Blockley Baptist Church, 

53d St. and Wyalusing Ave. 

12. Lincoln Institute, 324 South 

10th St. 

13. Roxborough Presbyterian 

Church, Ridge and Port 
Royal Aves. 

14. Harper Memorial Presbyterian 

Church. 

15. U. of P. Gymnasium, 33d and 

Locust Sts. 

16. First Moravian Church, Fair- 

mount Ave. west of 16th 
St. 



SCOUTMASTER AND ASSISTANTS 

E. U. Goodman 

Erwin A. Ambler (Ass't) 

Geo. J. Reimenschneider (Ass't) 

Arthur S. Clark (Ass't) 

J. H. Gross (Ass't) 

John Drever (Ass't) 

Walter L. Sheppard 

LeRoy S. Bishop (Ass't) 

E. W. Kimber 



E. W. Rubencame 
Samuel Saunders (Ass't) 
C. C. Slothower (Ass't) 
Dr. C. R. Steinke (Ass't) 
John Murphey 
W. L. Godshall (Ass't) 
Leslie H. Wright 

John H. Arnett 



Frank A. Newcomb 

E. R. Smiley 

(Ass't acting as S. M.) 
Wm. Henry Manton 



Walter M. Reeves 

E. W. Rubencame 
J. W. Patton 
W. J. Baumgard 



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TROOP NO. 



HEADQUARTERS 



17. The Chester Avenue Baptist 
Church, 46th St. and Ches- 
ter Ave. 

20. Mary A. Simpson Methodist 

Church, 61st and Jefferson 
Sts. 

21. Beth-Eden Presbyterian Chapel, 

Newmarket and Brown Sts. 

22. Holy Trinity Protestant 

Episcopal Church, 19th 
and Walnut Sts. 

23. Church. of the Covenant. 27th 

St. and Girard Ave. 

24. Mary Disston Presbyterian 

Church, Tacony. 

25. Bethesda Methodist Church, 

Venango St. below Rich- 
mond. 

27. West Park Presbyterian 

Church, 54th St. and Lans- 
downe Ave. 

28. Foster Home, 2400 Poplar St. 

29. Summit Presbyterian 

Church, Westview and 
Greene Sts. 

31. St. Jude and the Nativity Epis- 
copal Church, nth and Mt. 
Vernon Sts. 

35. Fox Chase Presbyterian 
Church, Fox Chase. 

37. Nicetmvn Boys' Club, Hunt- 

38. ing Park Avenue and 
Clarissa St., (two troops). 

39. Bridesburg M e t h o d i s t 

Church, Kirkbride St. N. 
E. Thompson St. 
42. 1942 Moyamensing Ave. 

45 nth Baptist Church, Van 

Pelt and Diaim mil Sts. 
46. Temple Lutheran Church, 
52d and Race Sts. 



SCOUTMASTER AND ASSISTANTS 

R. G. Lamb 
David Allen (Ass't) 
Norman Roberts (Ass't) 
Wm. J. Burns 



J. W. Patton 

C. R. Cook (Ass't) 

H. O. Merrill 



Rev. E. F. Towson 
I. G. Towson (Ass't) 
John L. Taylor 

Rev. Henry L. Munson 
S. Kurtz Hingley (Ass't) 

Harold B. Fisher 



C. S. Miller 

Benj. Franklin 

J. R. Kessler (Ass't) 

Harold Melchor (Ass't) 

Frank C. Stead 

Geo. H. Kaecher (Ass't) 

F. Gentner 

A. L. Rowland (Ass't) 
Rev. O. B. Hawes 
F. Stewart (Ass't) 
Geo. H. Kelly (Ass't) 
C. Bertram Nelson 



Frank Goldfield 

David I '< mierantz ( Ass'1 ) 

Chas. T. Mover 

( >SCar < r. \\ ' innan 
E. R. Smiley ( Vss'l I 
Myron J. I [ess 1 Wt | 



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TROOP NO. 



HEADQUARTERS 



SCOUTMASTER AND ASSISTANTS 



4 8. 

SO- 

52. 

53- 

55- 



57- 



62. 

63- 
66. 
68. 

69. 
7Z- 

74- 

75- 
77- 

78. 
80. 



Bethlehem Baptist Church, 

nth and York Sts. 
2636 Douglass St. 
Germantown Boys' Club. 
29th St. M. E. Church, 29th 

and York Sts. 
Kensington Methodist 

Church, Marlborough and 

Richmond Sts. 
Epiphany Episcopal Church, 

57th St. and Baltimore Ave. 

Second Baptist Church of 

Germantown, Upsal St. and 

Germantown Ave. 
Church of the Messiah, 

Broad and Montgomery 

Ave. 
Logan Baptist Church, 

Logan. 
A. A. Brotherhood, 955 South 

Front St. 
St. Stephen's Lutheran 

Church, 40th St. and Pow- 

elton Ave. 
Hebron Baptist Church, 56th 

and Vine Sts. 
Jesse George Public School. 

First Baptist Church of Ger- 
mantown, Price St. east of 
Germantown Ave. 

Grace Presbyterian Church, 
22d and Federal Sts. 

Southwest Presbyterian 
Church, 17th St. and Sny- 
der Ave. 

St. Barnabas Protestant 
Episcopal Church, 3d and 
Dauphin Sts. 

St. Timothy Episcopal 
Church, Ridge Ave. oppo- 
site Jamestown Ave. 



G. W. Schroeder 



Louis S. Potsdamer 

H. T. Walker 

Geo. S. Thompson (Ass't) 

Robt. E. Huttenlock 

B. Gifford, Jr. (Ass't) 

Geo. C. Von der Lindt 

E. L. Duhring (Ass't) 
H. Blanton (Ass't) 

H. H. Churchill 
D. H. Roth (Ass't) 
Howard Trexler (Ass't) 

Thomas R. West (Ass't) 

J. C. Rommel, M.D. 
N. C. Williams (Ass't) 

F. M. Paist 

Geo. H. Long 



Albert H. Dunn, Jr. 
D. C. Spooner (Ass't) 
James Walker, Jr. 
O. D. Thomas (Ass't) 
Walter Spencer 



A. Clark Stroup, M.D. 
M. J. I. Owens (Ass't) 
J. E. Ellis 



Chas. J. Wilde 

B. S. Smith (Ass't) 

Geo. S. Dayton 

T. A. Merryweather (Ass't) 

F. B. Halsey (Ass't) 



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SIGNALING BY THE MYER CODE 



TROOP NO. 



HEADQUARTERS 



SCOUTMASTER AND ASSISTANTS 



84. Olivet Methodist Church, R. F. Miller 

63d St. and Grays Ave. 

85. Gethsemane Baptist Church, G. W. McFetridge 

[8th St. and Columbia Ave. B. A. Evans (Ass't) 

R. K. Keightun (Ass't) 

87. Boys' Club of the Church F.J. Romanes 
Club, Howard and Somer- 
set Sts. 

89. 229 Lombard St. J. Smith (Ass't) 



90. St. David's Protestant ICpis- Orlando Crease, Jr. 

copal Church, Dupbnt St. M. C. ECuhn (Ass't) 

off Sumac St., Manayunk. Joseph llyde (Ass't) 

91. Bethel I'rcsbyterian Church, John L. Ross 

19th and York Sts. 

93. College S ettl e m en t , 433 Martin G. Stein 
Christian St. 



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TROOP NO. 



HEADQUARTERS 



SCOUTMASTER AND ASSISTANTS 



94. Episcopal Church of the Ad- 

vent, 5th and Buttonwood 
Sts. 

95. Starr Garden Park, 6th and 

Lombard Sts. 



96. Woodland Presbyterian 

Church, 42d and Pine Sts. 

97. Hawthorne Public School, 

98. T a b e r n a cle Presbyterian 

Church, 37th and Chestnut 
Sts. 

99. Memorial Church of the Ad- 

vocate, 18th and Diamond 
Sts. 

100. Evening Home Club, 21 S. 

Van Pelt St. 

101. Holy Apostles Church, 21st 

and Christian Sts. 

103. Fourth Presbyterian Church, 

19th and Fitzwater Sts. 

104. St. Andrew's Protestant 

Episcopal Church, 8th and 
Spruce Sts. 

105. Third Baptist Church, Broad 

and Ritner Sts. 
108. 

109. Spring St. Settlement, 1716 

N. Woodstock St. 
no. Northwest Boys' Club, 1333 

Frankford Ave. 

112. Belmont Baptist Chupch, 

Belmont and Westminster 
Aves. 

113. Northminster Presbyterian 

Church, 35th and Baring 
Sts. 

114. Roxborough Baptist Church, 

Ridge and Lyceum Aves. 



John J. Trout 



S. G. Friedman 
H. F. Goldsmith (Ass't) 
D. L. Zimmerman (Ass't) 
J. S. Simsohn (Ass't) 
A. Waldo Stevenson 
R. G. Boyd (Ass't) 
H. C. Hochstadter 
C. T. Waldie (Ass't) 
F. C. Deacon 



R. D. Barber 

Joseph H. Smith (Ass't) 

J. W. Patton 

Wm. H. Lindsay 

G. F. Scouller 
A. B. MacFarland (Ass't) 
J. S. Scouller (Ass't) 
Geo. F. Grove 



H. C. Glading 

C. J. Harris (Ass't) 

A. G. Mitchell 

F. Landstreet (Ass't) 

A. P. Caldwell 



A. Hering 



H. W. Rolston 

J. L. Kelly (Ass't) 

H. G. Hill, Jr. 

A. G. Peterkin (Ass't) 

F. O. Keely 

R. S. C. Keely (Ass't) 



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::j :^v.?:z7f sc gtieaster and assistants 

116. Nautical Tr : 500 Chest- Chas. Longstreth 

nut St J. W. Patten Ass't 

as.D. Moyer Ass't 

School for the Blind, Over- H. Molter 

brcok. 7. M. Barnett Ass't 

St Martin's T: liege. 713 Rev. A. W. Schick 
.tharine St 

120. Protestant Episcopal Chapel W. H. Ramsaur 

: the Holy Communion, 
27th and Wharton Sts 

121. 914 X. Broad St A. 5. Moriarty 

122. Oak Lane. Walter S. Crowell 

H. P. Murphy Asst 
Oak Park United Presbyte- H. R. Roney 

rian Church. 51st ind Pine R. S. Stanley Ass': 

Rev. T. R. Schaffer Ass't 
Messiah Ref rmed Church. W.J. Hewlitt 

. and Wolf Sts A. S. Morley (Ass't 

25 Free Library, Phila., Frank- Howard Burtt 
rd Ave. and Overington 
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126. Grace Pr testant E] iscopal Rev. J. McClintock 

Church. 41s: St 1 Leidy 
Ave. 

1 27. Pilgrim Congregational Rev. H. W. Myers. Jr. 

Church. Marlborough St 
bel r rd Ave. 

Norris Square Methodist William Thron. 
Church. Mascher St. and 
- -quehanna Ave. 

129. Public Library. 6th St. and Harry Boehme 

Lehigh Ave. 

130. Smith Building. Fairmount X. C. Ogden 

Par 

131. Messiah Lutheran Church. G. N. Mar 

and Tetter- 



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PHILADELPHIA PATROL 
WINNERS OF NATIONAL SCOUT CONTEST, WASHINGTON, D. C. , SEPT. I912 

Scouts Win Distinction 

Hanging in the Philadelphia Headquarters of the Boy Scouts 
of America, Independence Hall, are two trophies won by the Phila- 
delphia Patrol at the National Scout Contest held at Washington 
during the World's Congress of Hygiene and Demography, Sep- 
tember 25 to 29, 191 2. 

In addition to the points and cleanliness trophies, the Philadel- 
phia boys won the badges for the best signaling and water boiling, 
and in recognition of the sportsmanlike conduct of Scouts E. R. 
Smiley and Paul Quimby, the Philadelphia Executive Council pre- 
sented them with gold medals at the rally, March ist. This Patrol 
was composed of eight boys, taken from as many different Troops. 
The results demonstrated the motto of every Scout, "Be Prepared." 

In March of this year the Scouts again went to Washington 
from this city, thirty-seven strong, and took part with distinction 
at the inauguration ceremonies of President Wilson. 



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l'lMLADELl'IHA SCOUTS AT WILSON [ X A UOUKATlON 



A Fine Proof of Scoutcraft 

At the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President of the 
United States, the Boy Scouts distinguished themselves not only by 
helping the police, but, according to many onlookers, by proving far 
more effective in preserving order. 

During the proceedings there was a Woman Suffrage proces- 
sion which, though it had official sanction, the police seemed either 
unable or unwilling to protect. The New York Morning Telegraph 
said afterward : 

"While the uniformed policemen, fortified by the authority to arrest mis- 
creants, were making an ineffectual show at swinging their clubs, the Boy 
Scouts, fortified by nothing save manly courage and a sense of decency, were 
making a stout barricade against the crouds out of their long staffs. 

"While the officers of the law. receiving $5 a da) to protect American 
citizens from insult and ahu-c. were adding their own jeers to those of the 
crowd, the Boy Scouts, rewarded only by virtue itself, were driving back 
drunken offenders and conducting women out of their reach. 

"The contrast is pleasing. It i- a splendid concrete criticism on the move- 
ment which is striving to foster high ideals among American boys." 



The First-class Scout — What He Is 1 

&WJM HE Scout joins the Troop and becomes a tenderfoot. As 
^ he acquires knowledge, skill and Scoutcraft, he becomes 
a second-class Scout. Then — the goal of his ambition — 
(E^^d^SI his further work is rewarded and he becomes a first-class 
Scout, looked up to by all of his associates and eligible for the many 
merit badges offered by his great organization. 

You who are parents — do you realize what it would mean to you 
and your boy to have him become a first-class Scout? It means that 
he not only knows the splendid Scout law, but practices it in his daily 
life, and, in addition, that he has acquired a practical skill that will 
be of inestimable value to him when he reaches manhood. 

Here are the requirements as given in the official Handbook of 
the Boy Scouts of America : 

First-class Scouts 

To become a first-class Scout, the second-class Scout must pass the following 
tests : 

i. Swim fifty yards. 

2. Earn and deposit at least two dollars in a public bank. 

3. Send and receive a message by semaphore, or American Morse, or 
Myer alphabet, sixteen letters per minute. 

4. Make a round trip alone (or with another Scout) to a point at least 
seven miles away, going on foot or rowing boat, and write a satisfactory account 
of the trip and things observed. 

5. Advanced first aid : Know the methods for panic prevention ; what to 
do in case of fire and ice, electric and gas accidents; how to help in case of 
runaway horse, mad dog, or snake bite ; treatment for dislocations, unconscious- 
ness, poisoning, fainting, apoplexy, sunstroke, heat exhaustion, and freezing; 
know treatment for sunburn, ivy poisoning, bites and stings, nosebleed, earache, 
toothache, inflammation or grit in eye, cramp or stomachache and chills ; demon- 
strate artificial respiration. 

6. Prepare and cook satisfactorily, in the open, without regular kitchen 
utensils, two of the following articles as may be directed. Eggs, bacon, hunter's 
stew, fish, fowl, game, pancakes, hoecake, biscuit, hardtack or a "twist," baked 
on a stick ; explain to another boy the methods followed. 



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Photograph by' N. M. Kolston 

7. Read a map correctly, and draw, from field notes made on the spot, an 
intelligible rough sketch map, indicating by their proper marks important build- 
ings, roads, trolley lines, main landmarks, principal elevations, etc. Point out a 
compass direction without the help of the compass. 

8. Use properly an axe for felling or trimming light timber ; or produce 
an article of carpentry or cabinet-making or metal work made by himself. 
Explain the method followed. 

9. Judge distance, size, number, height and weight within 25 per cent. 

10. Describe fully from observation ten species of trees or plants, including 
poison ivy, by their bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, or scent; or six species of wild 
birds by their plumage, notes, tracks, or habits; or six species of native wild 
animals by their form, color, call, tracks, or habits; find the North Star, and 
name and describe at least three constellations of stars. 

11. Furnish satisfactory evidence that he lias put into practice in his daily 
life the principles of the Scout oath and law. 

12. Enlist a boy trained by himself in the requirements of a tenderfoot. 
NOTE. — \'o deviation from above requirements will be permitted unless in 

extraordinary cases, such as physical inability, and the written consent <>f the 
National Headquarters has been obtained by the recognized local Scout author it v. 



ri ^rgfc 



Stin;n 



First-class Scouts in Philadelphia 



IJ^EHE 



EEH3KJK 



Following is a list of Scouts in this city who, up to May i, 1913, 
had passed their first-class tests: 



TROOP NO. 1 

Charles Finney 
Horace A. Johnson 
Lloyd M. Johnson 
W. Wesley McKee 
Frederick R. Potts 
Walter M Seidle 
N. Wilbur Shellenberger 

TROOP NO. 4 

Donald F. Bishop 
Donald C. Rowe 
Archibald Dinsmore 
William Nassau, Jr. 
George Wiggan 

TROOP NO. 6 

Glenn Clark 
Alex. G. C. Duncan 
John McConnell 
Paul Quimby 

TROOP NO. 7 

Raymond E. Evleth 

TROOP NO. 17 

Richard Clark 
G. W. Laird 
Norman Roberts 
Edward J. Smith, Jr. 
Wm. Taylor 
Alan B. Wilson 
Erwin Aurisch 



TROOP NO. 21 

Albert Brown 
John Christian 
William Dietz 
Harry Ernst 
Wm. Heller 
Clyde Kalesse 
Jos. T. Murphy 
Chas. Soistman 
James Williams 
F. Tetaro 
George C. Smith 
W. Trumpfeller 



TROOP NO. 38 

James Kinsley 
Charles Myers 
Raymond Tadluck 
Harry Yoder 



TROOP NO. 42 



Louis 

Louis 

Benj. 

Harry 

James 

Louis 

Louis 

Harry 



Flomenhoft 
Fisher 
Goldstein 
M. Goldstein 
Goldfield 
A. Harrison 
Vinicoft 
Weinberger 



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!XG END OF A SIGNAL TEAM 



TROOP NO. 46 

Herbert Biddle 
Geo. A. Fischer. Jr. 
Myron J. Hess 
Robert L. Leyburn 
Geo. W. Miller 
Robert C. Motherwell 
R. J. Nichols 
Robert Patchell 
Harry P. Schenk 
Edwin R. Smiley 
F. Albert Schaefer 
Albert Spaeth 
Charles P. Spaeth 
J. Raymond Stewart 
Cheston F. Willey 
Earl Windhovel 



TROOP NO. 57 

Edwin L. Duhring 
Herman Blanton 
Joseph W. Hillier 



TROOP NO. 80 

Stanley Schindel 
Edward Hogeland 
Joseph Sumner 



TROOP NO. 95 

Benj. Kutcher 
Israel Flitter 



TROOP NO. 100 

W. W. Keen Freeman 
Harry McC. Hew - 
\U>ert Lewis 



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Merit Badge Holders in Philadelphia 

When a boy has become a first-class Scout he may qualify for any 
of the merit badges offered by the organization. 

The official handbook gives the following list of merit badges 
open to Boy Scouts : 



Agriculture 

Angling 

Archery 

Architecture 

Art 

Astronomy 

Athletics 

Automobiling 

Aviation 

Bee Farming 

Blacksmithing 

Business 

Camping 

Carpentry 

Chemistry 

Civics 

Conservation 

Cooking 

Craftsmanship 



Cycling- 
Dairying 
Electricity 
Firemanship 
First Aid 

First Aid to Animals 
Forestry 
Gardening 
Handicraft 
Horsemanship 
Interpreting 
Invention 
Leather Working 
Life Saving 
Machinery 
Marksmanship 
Masonry 
Mining 
Music 



Ornithology 
Painting 
Pathfinding 
Personal Health 
Photography 
Pioneering- 
Plumbing 
Poultry Farming- 
Printing 
Public Health 
Scholarship 
Sculpture 
Seamanship 
Signaling 
Stalking 
Surveying 
Swimming 
Taxidermy 



The following list includes, up to May I, 1913, all Scouts in 
Philadelphia who have actually been awarded merit badges. Many 
more boys have qualified since then, but the badges have not yet been 
awarded by National Headquarters : 



Donald C. Rowe, Troop 4 

Donald Bishop, 4 

Paul Ouimby, 6 



Alex. G. C. Duncan, 
John McConnell, 



Camping, Civics, Craftsmanship, Cycling, 
Firemanship, First Aid, Pathfinding, Per- 
sonal Health, Public Health, Swimming. 

Bugling, Firemanship, First Aid, Pathfinding, 
Personal Health, Public Health, Swimming. 

Personal Health, Public Health, Signaling, 
Swimming, Pathfinding. 

Personal Health, Public Health. 

Personal Health, Public Health, Signaling, 
Pathfinding. 



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TEST FOR COOKING — MERIT BADGE 
GEORGE SPENCEK MORR'S, EXAMINER 



* rlenn ( lark, 
Raymond Fvleth, 
Richard Clark, 

(,. W. Laird, 

\\ in. Taylor, 

Alan B. Wilson, 

Edw. J. Smith, Jr. 
Norman Roberts, 

James William-, 

Clyde Kalesse, 
William Deitz, 
i i w in Aurisch, 



Troop 6 
7 
•7 



'7 



>7 
_M 

21 

_'[ 
21 



Personal Health, Public Health. 

Marksmanship. 

Firemanship, Life Saving, Public Health, 

Swimming. 
Firemanship, Public Health, Personal Health, 

Swimming. 
Firemanship, Life Saving, Personal Health, 

I'ulilic Health, Swimming. 
Firemanship, First Aid, Athletics, Public 

I [ealth, Persona] I fealth. 
Firemanship, First Aid. Personal Health, 
Firemanship, First Aid. Handicraft, Public 

Health, Swimming, Personal Health. 
Firemanship, Handicraft, I'ulilic Health, 

Sign a ling, Swimming. 
I- in n anship, Signaling. 
Bugling, Public Health. 
Firemanship. 



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Harry A. Ernst, Troop 21 
John Christian, 21 



Jos. Murphy, 


21 


Win. Heller, 


21 


John A. Brown, 


21 


Harry Goldstein, 


42 


Harry Weinberger, 


42 


Jas. Goldfielcl, 


42 


Lewis Harrison, 


42 


Lewis Vinicoft, 


42 


Sol Linker, 


42 


Lewis Flomenhoft, 


42 


Benj. Goldstein, 


42 


F. A. Schaefer, 


46 


Chester F. Willey, 


46 


R. J. Nichols, 


46 


H. P. Schenk, 


46 


Myron J. Hess, 


46 


Robt. Motherwell, 


46 


J. B. Stewart, 


46 


Clinton Wunderlich, 


46 


E. R. Smiley, 


46 



H. M. C. Hewson, " 100 
W. W. Keen Freeman " 100 
Alfred Lewis, " 100 



Bugling, Camping. 

Camping, Interpreting, Personal Health, Pub- 
lic Health, Swimming. 

Pathfinding, Personal Health, Public Health, 
Signaling. 

Bugling, Camping, Firemanship, Personal 
Health, Public Health, Swimming, Signal- 
ing. 

Bugling, Camping, Public Health, Personal 
Health, First Aid, Firemanship. 

First Aid, Handicraft, Pathfinding, Personal 
Health, Public Health, Signaling, Swim- 
ming, Automobiling. 

Personal Health, Public Health. 

Business, Camping, Handicraft, Pathfinding, 
Personal Health, Public Health. 

Handicraft, Public Health, Business, Civics. 

Handicraft, Personal Health, Public Health. 

Chemistry. 

Pathfinding, Personal Health, Public Health. 

Public Health. 

Camping, First Aid, Personal Health, Public 
Health. 

Camping, Public Health. 

Public Health, First Aid. 

Camping. 

Personal Health, Public Health. 

First Aid, Personal Health, Swimming, Pub- 
lic Health. 

Public Health, First Aid. 

Public Health, First Aid, Personal Health. 

Camping, Public Health, First Aid, Personal 
Health, Athletics. 

First Aid, Pathfinding, Personal Health, Pub- 
lic Health, Swimming. 

Bugling, Life Saving, Pathfinding, Personal 
Health, Public Health, Swimming. 

Personal Health. 



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Billy Woods — How He Became 
a Tenderfoot 

By H. W. ROLSTON 
Scoutmaster Troop 112, Philadelphia, Pa. 

[ : '..liai LZ»?.: T . , 

!f£|pi^p ILLY WOODS, in the loneliness of his soul, sat on the 
y«£pii£§f porch step and drummed his heels. Only yesterday Billy's 
\\/fl£Q)Vn folks, impelled by necessities which are unknown quan- 
is^=2^^§i tities to the average boy, had moved from a sleepy country 
town to a middle-class residential section of the city. Only this after- 
noon Billy had "butted in" on a game of "kick the wickey," and with 
the catholic spirit of brotherhood common to the genus boy, what- 
ever his habitat, had been admitted to their circle as a good fellow. 

To-night, dinner over, Billy had again sought the joys of com- 
panionship, and behold, not a fellow in sight ! In vain he whistled 
and "hoo-hoo"-ed in front of Jack Spencer's house, — good-natured 
Jack, who had invited him to join the game that afternoon, failed to 
appear. A like salutation addressed to the neighborhood in general 
evoked no response, so Billy wandered across the street and into 
his home. 

The hallway was littered with boxes and barrels of unpacked 
household goods, and in the corner stood two poles which, in Billy's 
home town, had formed the aerial of the wireless apparatus, built 
according to specifications received from a firm advertising "Boys' 
Wireless Apparatus" in glowing terms, but which failed to make 
good, leaving Billy somewhat wiser as to the schemes of some adver- 
tisers, even though unenlightened as to the principles of wireless 
telegraphy. 

Billy surveyed the household wreckage with a disconsolate air, 
picked up a hook from a partly unpacked box, curled up on the top 
of a barrel and fell to reading. The resl of the family passed him 
once or twice Oil errands which were designed to make the house 
more habitable, but he was deep in a harrowing tale of knightly 
adventure, when the doorbell rang violently. 



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He slipped off the barrel and went to the door. A slim chap in 
a khaki suit confronted him. Bill's observant eye quickly took in 
the lines of the outfit, the green and black streamers from his left 
shoulder, the short white stripe beneath them, and the little edit- 
colored badge like a metal ribbon, with some lettering upon it which 
Billy, in the half-light, could not read. A second glance told him 
that it was Jim Southwark, fleet of foot, who had been one of the 
stars in the afternoon's game. 

"Hello, Bill," was Jim's salutation; "only got a minute; the 
fellows want you on the hike to-morrow. One o'clock, at the corner. 
Mr. Wilson said it would be all right. S'long; got a committee 
meeting yet; thought I'd drop in and tell you before bedtime." Jim 
dashed down the steps. 

Billy looked after him somewhat dazed for a second or two, then 
called : 

"Hey, I say, Jim, what's a hike? Who's Mr. Wilson? Where 
are you going? Wnat's that rig you've got on? What do those 
ribbons mean? What — " Jim came back laughing. 

"Hully gee!" he exclaimed, "you don't mind chucking questions 
at a fellow. Well, a hike is just a tramp — plus; Mr. Wilson is our 
Scoutmaster; this is a Boy Scout uniform, and the ribbons are our 
Patrol colors. I'm Assistant Patrol Leader of the Eagles. So long; 
the fellows will be sore if I keep them waiting; it's late now; see 
you to-morrow," and Jim was gone. 

Billy went into the house puzzled but strangely pleased. Of the 
Boy Scouts he had heard, and now remembered seeing a picture of 
the uniform in a magazine. The terms "Scoutmaster," "Patrol," 
"Eagles" and "hike" still needed explanation. Jim had gone beyond 
reach, so Billy had no choice other than to go to bed and possess 
his soul in patience until the morrow. 

The next day was ideal in so far as the weather was concerned. 
Many demands made on Billy's time by the home folks kept him busy 
all morning. After lunch he repaired to the corner appointed by Jim 
as the rendezvous and awaited the fellows. They came in uniform, 
by twos and threes, until about thirty boys had assembled. As each 
arrived Jack Spencer checked them off on a card. Promptly at one 
o'clock he made his announcement. 

"Mr. Wilson will meet us at Oxford Pike Road. He and a 
couple of Scouts have been laying a treasure hunt. I am to take 
charge, — fall in!" 



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OFF OX A BIG HIKE AFIELD 



The boys formed line by twos. Jack leading. Jim held a whis- 
pered consultation with Tack, who nodded, and Billy found himself 
at the end of the line with Jim by his side. 

''I got permission to take the rear with you," explained Jim 
when they had started. '"Jack is my Patrol Leader. He's a mighty 
fine fellow: only been in the Troop a year and is a first-class Scout 
with three merit badges." 

"'Say. Jim." burst out Billy, "what is a first-class Scout, and 
how do you get merit badges? Tell me about things." 

"That's what I'm back here with you for." replied Jim: "Jack 
told me to explain. You see. when you first join the Scouts you're 
a tenderfoot. You have to know about the American flag, where it 
was made, who made it, and how to salute it. Then you learn about 
the Scout badge. The badge has two parts: see?" and Jim held out 
a -mall folding drinking cup. on the lid of which was a three-lobed 
arrow head resembling a fleur-de-lis. with a spread eagle superim- 
posed and a scroll beneath bearing the w<>rd< "Be Prepared." 

"Now this is the tenderfoot badge." Jim went on, indicating the 
upper part. "That sign has been used "ii compasses for hundreds of 
years to represent north: the eagle and the -tar< show that we are 
the Bov Scouts of America. Then when you become a second-class 



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Scout you wear the lower part, like on my arm." Here Jim pointed 
to his arm badge, which Billy had noticed the night before. 

"What else do you have to know?" asked Bill. 

"Well," replied Jim, "you must learn the twelve points of the 
Scout Law and what they mean. Here they are," and Jim rattled 
off glibly — "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, cour- 
teous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. 
After you learn those you must tie at least four useful knots. Then, 
if you are voted in, you take the oath." 

"Gee, that's going some," Billy ejaculated. "Guess I can get 
it, though. What's the oath? Do you get initiated?" 

"Sure, you get initiated, all right," and Jim smiled inscrutably. 
"The oath has three parts, like the badge: 'On my honor I will do 
my best, I. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the 
Scout Law. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To keep myself 
physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.' " 

Billy had been so interested in Jim's explanation that he failed 
to notice where he was. They had swung out from the city limits 
and were now deep in the dust of a country byroad. Soon they struck 
the pike, and as the Troop reached the crest of a hill the boys in 
front spied the faint blue smoke of a campfire from the edge of a 
grove along the creek at the hill's base. Two uniformed boys came 
racing up the slope toward the marchers. 

At Spencer's order they broke column opposite the camp and 
raced across the field to the tent which had been erected. 

"Come on and meet Mr, Wilson," said Jim to Billy as they 
dropped over the fence. Billy needed no urging, and as they 
approached the tent he saw in front a roughly constructed table at 
which was seated a man wearing a uniform exactly like that of the 
boys, except that on his left sleeve was embroidered in green the 
first-class badge, an insignia rapidly becoming familiar to Billy, as 
he saw it constantly in and about the Troop. It was stamped on the 
buttons of the uniform, some of the boys wore a large badge on their 
sleeves, the Troop flag had this same emblem emblazoned on it, and 
nearly every piece of accoutrement bore it in some way. 

Mr. Wilson rose as they approached, responded to Jim's salute, 
and immediately stretched out his hand to Billy. 

"So this is the new fellow, Jim?" he asked. Jim replied in the 
affirmative. Billy shook hands with the Scoutmaster. With a boy's 



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STOVE BUILT 01" BRICKS FOR SCOUT CAMP 



keen scrutiny lie saw the man before him to be of athletic build, about 
thirty years of age, with a pair of keen and rather serious gray eyes, 
offset, however, by a generally pleasant expression. 

"Your name is Woods, I believe," said Mr. Wilson. Billy 
nodded. The Scoutmaster turned to Jim. 

"Take Woods with you this afternoon," he ordered. "Here are 
directions for the treasure hunt. Tell Spencer to start the Troop on 
it and report to me." 

Jim sainted with a "Yes, sir," and the Scoutmaster again seated 
himself at the tabic with some papers before him. 

The treasure hunt was arranged by pitting two Patrols one 
against the other, each following a hidden trail marked by con- 
cealed letter-, scraps of torn paper, small piles of stones, and so on. 
Billy learned that the "treasure" was at the point where the two 
trails converged, and that the Patrol, or company of eight boys, who 
first reached the goal gained possession of the hidden article. 



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As they spread out, he traveling with the Eagle Patrol under 
Spencer, the Senior Patrol Leader, Billy realized that the Scouts 
knew more of many things than any crowd with which he had ever 
been in contact. The strange-looking chalk signs, the letters found, 
written in strings of numbers, the mysterious piles of two or three 
stones, a bunch of tall grass tied in a knot, all seemed plain sailing 
to them as they flew along the trail with renewed cries as each new 
mark was discovered. 

Suddenly a group of three boys, bending over a letter which 
had been found beneath a log, straightened up with a shout. Spencer, 
one of the group, gave a series of sharp, short blasts on a whistle 
suspended from his neck, and the eight boys rushed toward him. 

"Listen, fellows, we'll beat the Wolves to it yet; they're not in 
sight ;" and he read from the letter in his hand : 'Treasure is hidden 
at base of horse-chestnut tree within one hundred yards of this spot.' 
Go to it, fellows!" 

The Scouts spread out in all directions. Billy ran at random 
a few steps, then halting he remembered that it had been said that 
their house in the village was just one hundred yards from the sta- 
tion. He glanced back to where he had started and began to estimate 
the distance. Looking backward and hurrying on, he ran plump into 
a tree. The blow shook him somewhat, and in turning around to get 
his bearings he saw a large horse-chestnut tree just ahead. 

The boys could be heard near at hand, calling from one to the 
other. Billy dashed to the tree and began to search around it. Near 
the roots was a small hole, no larger than the palm of his hand. He 
leaned down and drew forth a small piece of paper on which was 
written, "Dig here." Glancing around, he spied a little pile of newly 
turned earth, and a few seconds' digging with his fingers brought 
to light a little cardboard box. With shaking fingers he hfted the 
lid and then shouted aloud; for within lay a shining jack-knife, 
bearing the legend "Boy Scouts" upon its handle. 

Spencer blew two long blasts on his whistle as a signal that the 
contest was over, and they trooped back to headquarters. Many were 
the congratulations poured on Billy, and his heart warmed to the 
manly bunch of fellows who showed not a particle of jealousy at 
the fact of a new boy winning the coveted prize. 

Mr. Wilson then called the Troop before him and received the 
reports of the Patrol Leaders. The boys then formed a semicircle 
and seated themselves. 



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"Fellows," began Mr. Wilson, "I have here a few of the common 
wild flowers of this locality, gathered while laying the treasure hunt. 
We shall see if you can name them, and then we shall have an exer- 
cise in compass work." 

Billy listened attentively to the flower talk. He had always 
liked flowers, and some of these — most, in fact — he had known for 
years but had never learned their names. 

This and a game requiring a chart already prepared, and using 
a compass to find a number of small pegs previously set in the ground, 
occupied the remainder of the afternoon. The Scouts then divided 
into their four Patrols — the Wolves, Buffaloes, Foxes and the Eagles, 
with which last Billy remained — and built cook-fires. The boys 
arranged the food they had brought, cooked and ate it, Jim sharing 
with Billy, as, indeed, he found all willing to do. 

After the scraps of the evening meal had been burned and the 
camp ground put in order, a large council fire was lighted, the Troop 
forming a circle round it and seating themselves on the ground. It 
was an evening short in duration but long remembered by Billy. They 
sang rousing camp songs, and senseless ditties which seemed the more 
humorous by their very lack of saneness; they gave a series of Troop 
yells ; one of the boys played a mouth organ ; and finally, as the fire 
burned down to a bed of glowing embers and the light "paled and 
shone" upon the faces in the circle, Mr. Wilson talked to them. 
Breathlessly they listened. To Billy it was new; to the rest it was 
old, but was it not their gospel? This creed of the great outdoors, 
of clean living and fair play, of good-fellowship and a helping hand, 
the valuation of man or boy by the scale of character — Mich were the 
points in the evening's talk, a talk which impressed itself deeply upon 
the new recruit as lie marched home under the Stars. 

Two weeks later came one of the great events of Billy's life. 
After having satisfied his parents regarding the value of the Scout 
movement, he had gained their permission to join. Passing his exam- 
inations for the tenderfoot grade, In- had been duly accepted by the 
Troop, had stood at attention with hand at the half salute, and prom- 
ised to do his duty to God and hi- country, to obey the Scout Law, 
to help others at all times, and to keep himself physically strong, men- 
tally awake and morally straight. Now, and for die lasl fortnight, 
the conversation of the Troop had been largely impregnated with 
thai magic word "cam])." They were to spend two whole weeks in 



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PITCHING AN OVER-NIGHT CAMP 



the open, to give practical demonstration of their woodcraft, and the 
• boys could think of little else. 

Consequently a bright morning in August found them at a way- 
side railway station, and a hike of four miles brought them to a river, 
overlooking the broad expanse of which was the rocky shore of the 
island that was to be their home for the following fortnight. A row- 
boat conveyed the Scouts and their duffle across, and before it landed 
the last boy the first tent was in the process of being raised. 

Since he had become a Scout, Billy's mind had been crowded 
with new ideas and his mental vision almost blinded by the vista of 
new efforts. Now, in camp, Jim had promised to teach him signaling 
— that mysterious method of communication across distances by flags 
held in various positions. Also, he had learned from the boys that 
Mr. Wilson "knew wireless." 

Night having all too soon ended the first day in camp, he lay, 
with the remainder of the Eagle Patrol, to which he had been assigned, 
in the big roomy Patrol tent. The flap was turned back and a pleas- 
ant breeze blew across the blanket-wrapped group. Mr. Wilson sat 
outside "headquarters" tent checking up some reports of his Patrol 
Leaders by the light of an oil lantern. The rest of the boys in the 



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GET HER BOILING 



Lent were laughing and chaffing each other, but Billy was busy with 
his own thoughts. 

The da}- had been replete with pleasures, but he meant to make 
even more of the coming days. At last he would learn what had 
interfered with the successful working of his wireless outfit; to-mor- 
row he would ask about that signal code; to-morrow he would go 
on the promised hike to the Indian camping ground; to-morrow — 
Out from the other end of the cam]) floated the clear, sweet notes 
of "taps." 

"No more talking, fellows," ordered Spencer. 

A hush fell on the crowd, and several tired beads dropped on 
as many haversacks as the bugle call died away on the last high note. 
Out through the tent door Billy saw the Scoutmaster rise from the 
(able, lower the lantern flame and walk' slowly to the edge of the 
camp, to stand with loot apart and hands clasped behind bis bared 
head, gazing up at the starlit sky. For some time he stood there 
without moving, and Billy, nol being a Scoutmaster, but only a tender- 
foot Scout, fell asleep wondering why. 






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A Plea For Leaders 



By F. JOHN ROMANES 



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"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart 
of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." 

— Malachi iv, verse 6. 



WANTED— A MAN TO LEAD 



There isn't a lad but wants to grow 

Manly and true at heart, 
And every lad would like to know 

The secret we impart. 
He doesn't desire to slack or shirk, 

Oh ! haven't you heard him plead ? 
He'll follow a man at play or work 

If only the man will lead. 

Where are the men to lead today 

Sparing an hour or two, 
Teaching the lads the game to play, 

Just as a man should do ? 
Village and slums are calling, "come 

Here are the boys, indeed, 
Who can tell what they might be- 
come 
If only the men will lead?" 



Motor and golf and winter sport, 

Fill up the time a lot, 
But wouldn't you like to feel you'd 
taught 

Even a boy a knot? 
Country and home depend on you, 

Character most we need, 
How can a lad know what to do, 

If there isn't a man to lead ? 

Where are the men to lend a hand? 

Echo it far and wide, 
Men who will rise in every land, 

Bridging the "Great Divide?" 
Nation and flag and tongue unite 

Joining each class and creed, 
Here are the boys who would do 
right, 

But where are the men to lead? 



E. C. T. — Headquarters Gazette, England. 

O A MAN who has the joy of leading a live bunch of boys, 
who has experienced the disappointments of apparent neg- 
lect from those who, he thought, would be the last ones 
to hurt him thus, who has struggled with the individuals 
to show them an ideal above sordid money making, who has laughed 
with them, hiked into the clean, sweet-smelling, windy hills and lain 




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SALUTING THE COLORS AT SCOUT CAMP 



around the dying campfires under the cool stars, and who has at length 
earned the trust of a growing boy, it seems passing strange that so 
few men are willing to spend their spare time in the company of the 
most engaging and entertaining set of people that are on God's earth. 
So much is spoken and written about the "Boy Problem" and the 
solution or the reverse, these days, that one might be led to suppose 
that a boy was only a fit subject to be handled by an old experienced 
professor or the judge of a juvenile court. Surely the problem is nol 
really so much the problem of the boy as the problem of the leader. 
It has been well said that every boy has a hero, and often the more' 
a boy is a hero worshiper in the day- of Ins youth, the better leader 
of men be is in later years. 



It is Satin-day morning, a touch of frosl Mill in the air and a 
good breeze bending the branches of the trees after their long winter 



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sleep and blowing the smoke from the chimneys up in great scattered 
clouds into the splendid, clear blue atmosphere. 

You are at the end of the car line close to the woodlands, and 
though you had an early breakfast less than a couple of hours ago, 
the apple in your pocket does not seem likely to remain there whole 
for long. 

The sky is a sea, the white clouds, like dozens of ships, being- 
driven helter-skelter across the blue. Although not in bed till well 
after midnight, clearing- off this morning's work to be free to go out, 
you cannot restrain from leaping in the air and taking a run and 
humming as you go. The next car swings into sight around the 
curve, and a bunch of hats and heads are hanging out of the windows 
and a chorus of yelps not unlike a pack of hounds is borne on the 
wind. 

And no wonder. These are the Hounds — your own live, real 
Patrol of boys, ready for a hike into the woods, and you are their 
leader. 

The hike into the woods, the midday fire, carefully guarded to 
prevent the boisterous wind from scattering sparks, the glorious 
dinner, the romping Scout game, and in some ways best of all, the 
quieter tramp back again in the evening, I will not attempt to describe. 
Only those who have done all this with boys can know what it is. 

It is good, gentlemen; try it. 



Supper is over; mess kits clean. The flag is down and the stars 
are just showing. What a splendid evening! That clear spring twi- 
light, just after the sun is down, with one star just a-twinkling and 
a good campfire at one's feet. You've had a hard day tramping 
through the woods, and the axe was outrageously blunt, and it seems 
that twice as much water was wanted this evening by the cooks, since 
it was your turn to get it. 

"Tired out? Worn out?" 

Wrapped up in your blankets, with a pair of easy slippers on, 
you feel as though you never want to move again. And for a long 
while you don't; just lie and talk the happenings of the day over 
with the people — the boys — who are recalling to you your first trip 
into the woods, more years ago than you care to remember. 



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SIGNAL TOWER AT A BOY SCOUT CAMP 



Then some one calls for a story, and of course you have to supply 
it. \\ hy? Because you are the leader, and thus it is expected of you. 
So the story is told as the cocoa goes round, and you find yourself 
wandering in it a little as you grow sleepy. 

But what does it matter, for you realize slowly that you are the 
only one left awake! So you turn over on your delicious self-made 
bed of branches and leaves, and before you seem to have slept a 
moment that refreshing chill of early dawn wakes you with the song 
of a bird in your ears. 

When arc you coming out with us, gentlemen? 

:;: * * * ■■:■ ■■':■ * * 

"Gee whiz, that's tierce!'* The Man is lying on his bed, and the 
pain has been pretty bad all through the night. The day i> wet and 
drab, and even the usually bright, neat little hospital nurse somehow 
looks bedraggled and tired. The -lop- for breakfasl seemed more 
rancid and distasteful than ever, and lie turns to the wall and groans 



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through sheer distress of spirit as well as pain. The doctor comes 
and fuddles around a bit, but the weather is having its effect on him, 
and his auto broke down, which he seems to think is the worst calamity 
that can happen to any man. So the morning slowly drags on. 

"May I come in?" It's the Second of the Senior Patrol. 

"Come in? I should think so!" For an hour or more Dick Lea 
sits and talks about things he is doing or plans to do. The Man 
actually forgets his aches, and when the boy has to go, why — it so 
happens the sun has come out, and the food brought for dinner seems 
pretty good, and the boyish book which was left is just the light adven- 
turous nonsense that is unwittingly calculated to send a sick man to 
sleep. And for the rest of that day things seem a great deal lighter. 

"A Scout is a brother to every other Scout," gentlemen, and 
also — 

"A Scout is loyal." 

Boys in Philadelphia are looking for men to lead them, to become 
their friends and steer them right — or help to steer them right — until 
they are strong enough to handle themselves by themselves. It does 
not require great sacrifice of time, and anyway, can you call this a 
sacrifice of time? Are you sacrificing your auto when you use it? 
Are you sacrificing your dinner when you eat it? Are you sacrific- 
ing your money when you invest it well? 

How can a man, a man, better use his time than give it to a 
bunch of boys who are on the eve of manhood, who want a leader, 
who will grow under his leadership, be molded by his character, and 
at last give thanks to God that they met him? 

Men, we want leaders. What's keeping you? 

"THANKS" 

God who created me 

Nimble and light of limb, 
In three elements free. 

To run, to ride, to swim; 
Not when the sense is dim, 

But now from the heart of joy, 
I would remember him : 

Take the thanks of a boy. 

— Beeching 



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Over-night Hikes 



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By ORLANDO CREASE, Jr., Scoutmaster Troop 90 



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NE of the principal features of the work of the Philadel- 
phia Scouts — developed more elaborately here, perhaps, 
than in any other city — is the over-night hike. This is 
due largely to the fact that our suburbs are particularly 
adapted for this most interesting branch of our activities. Within 
a five-cent car fare of the center of the city can be found thickly 
wooded hills and ravines for trailing and Scout games, and rivers 
and streams for water sports and signaling. 

The Troop assembles at the meeting place, the boys equipped 
with lean-tos or dog tents, as usually used on short stays, blankets 
done up in a poncho, food, mess kits, axes, etc., and start out for the 
camping place, playing Scout games to test and encourage observa- 
tion and alertness. 

On arriving in the locality in which they intend to camp, the 
boys are sent out to pick the site, being instructed that an open clear- 
ing on a gravelly slope is better than a spot in the midst of thick 
vegetation, or one in a depression or near swampy ground. Then, 
after a careful inquiry is made as to the purity of the water supply, 
the tents are pitched. 

Squads arc then appointed for sanitation, policing .and "cookees." 
The duties of the sanitation committee are to look after the proper 
disposal of garbage, disinfection and the care of the latrines. The 
policing committee sees to the proper obedience of camp rules, getting 

water for cooking purposes, the disposal of rubbish and maintaining 
the tidiness of the camp. The cookees attend to the conking and 
campfires and assist the appointed cooks in cleaning vegetables and 
pots and pans. 

The boys now prepare their beds, made either of balsam boughs 
or dry bay covered with ponchos; then, if time permits, signaling is 
taken up and practiced, but usually it takes all afternoon to gel things 
shipshape and the cooks' fires started. 



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Two boys from each patrol cook the grub, which consists of 
meat, potatoes, hot biscuits cooked in a reflecting oven, and cocoa. 
When the dishes are cleaned up the boys gather around the campfire. 

This is the most enjoyable part of the stay. Stories are told, 
songs are sung and the next day's program is gone over and each 
detail is explained. There is something tremendously fascinating 
about a campfire which brings the boys closer together and also 
makes them think. 

"Taps" is sounded at nine o'clock, and the Scout is put on his 
honor to preserve perfect quiet until "Reveille" in the morning. 

Many funny things happen in camp, one of which I remember 
very distinctly. We were camping with a lot of boys in conical or 
"circus" tents having one pole in the center. I was aroused in the 
night by the sound of the tent being shaken and hearing a voice 
call out "Strike one!" Before I could get out of my blankets the 
voice shouted "Strike two!" at which the tent came down. A boy 
had been taken with nightmare and had mistaken the tent pole 
for a base-ball bat. 

Last summer my assistant had a similar experience. Seeing a 
bad storm approaching, the boys decided to sleep in an old pavilion 
and not erect their tents until morning. In the night the assistant 
happened to awake, and saw, in the flashes of lightning, a strange 
person on hands and knees slowly coming toward him. It was 
uncanny. First everything was dark and then lighted up. At last, 
not being able to stand it any longer, he shouted, "Hey there! What 
are you doing?" A sleepy voice replied, "Whoa, Bill! Just water- 
ing the horses, Pop." 

It turned out to be the farmer's boy near whose house they 
were camping, and who had come over to spend the night. 

At the rising bugle, "Reveille," the boys are put through a five 
minutes' "setting-up" exercise. Then they have a dip in the water 
if there is any near. Breakfast is prepared and eaten with relish. 

The day is spent in lively Scout games and interpatrol contests 
of lassoing, tent-raising, tilting, bandaging and signaling. At four 
o'clock comes the swim, which includes instruction and water sports. 
Precautions are taken to insure safety by having watches on the 
bank or in boats and a life-saving crew of the best swimmers. 

And so the time is spent until the order is given to break camp 
and the Troop returns home. 



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PASSING THE FIRST-CLASS TEST IX MAP MAKING 



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Scout Games that Instruct 



By H. R. RONEY, Scoutmaster Troop 123 



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O GET the best effort- of the Scout is the aim of every 
Scoutmaster, and to help him in gaining that end a number 
of Scout games have been invented which are calculated 
to develop the Scout's mind in the most diversified manner 
and at the same time keep him ink- re -ted and entertained. My 
idea of Scout games that are worth while are those which instruct 
while being played and which are of such flexibility that they 




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can be changed over and over again, presenting new sides all the 
time, and thus keeping up the interest of the Scouts. 

The average Scout is a bunch of energy, and he has to get that, 
energy out of his system in some way- Now, if the Scoutmaster is 
wise, he will have a number of games on tap, so that at the first 
sign of uneasiness in a Troop, either in meeting or outside, he can 
swing the boys into one of these games, and, after working off surplus 
steam, resume the routine work. 

I herewith submit a number of games which, to my mind, seem 
full of almost limitless possibilities : 

The Plant Race: Scouts are sent out in all directions with instruc- 
tions to obtain and return with certain plants, shrubs or leaves. A 
time limit is set and Scouts are penalized for overtime and credited 
with speed and accuracy. This game can be changed to cover almost 
anything to be brought back. 

Far and Near: This is another fine game. The Scoutmaster 
has a list of the Scouts' names and arranges a list of objects to be 
observed. 

As the Troop travels along a road, the Scout observing any of 
the detailed articles reports them at once to the Scoutmaster, who 
enters a credit opposite the name of the Scout. The Scout who has 
the largest number of marks is declared the winner. The detailed 
list can be changed each week and can cover almost anything of 
interest to the Troop. 

The following gives an idea for making such a list, and it can 
be altered at any time: 

Each match found i point 

" button " I " 

" bird track 2 points 

" white horse 2 " 

" white mule 5 " 

" broken window 1 point 

" dog — specify color or breed 2 points 

Path Finding is another fine game almost limitless in its 
possibilities. The Scoutmaster takes his Troop or Patrol into a 
strange section and then, entirely from maps, has the Scouts work 
out a route back to the starting point. 



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THE FORESTER 5 TEX' 



-EASY TO SET UP 



Trailing: This is very popular and can be made quite elaborate. 
At some convenient point, the proper sign denoting a "letter hidden" 
will be made and in the square will be marked the number of paces 
to the point where the message is located. The message so left is 
to be written in code, either Morse, Myer or semaphore, giving entire 
directions to either the end of the trail or to another point at which 
further instructions are to be obtained. 

These direction- are to be by compass, and at so many pace-. 
»ne point from another. The Scout, upon deciphering the message, 
must get his direction either from the sun or compass, according to 
his ability, and work out the detail- of the course. This can be made 
very difficult and capable of testing the best there is in the Scout, 
and I consider it one of the most useful all-round developer- in the 
Scout game-. 

An example follow-: First the arrow sign is made with the 
figure "25" denoting that a letter i- 25 paces in the direction of the 
arrow head. The letter, in code, -avs; 



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"5o paces N. W. then 150 N. E. — 75 S. 200 
N. W. 50 S. W— 100 N.— 75 E.— 450 N. by W., 
at which point further instructions will be found. 

Signed, Capt. Kidd." 

This can be laid out with a small peg 'driven at each turning- 
point, or can be made very difficult by not marking the turning points, 
necessitating great accuracy. 

Scout's Eye: This is a game which my own boys have enjoyed. 
Within a prescribed boundary of eight or ten blocks the Scoutmaster 
will make frequent trips and make a note of everything he sees out 
of the ordinary. He will keep the locations in a notebook, and when 
ready for the game will announce to the Scouts something as fol- 
lows : 

"I saw seven new bricks in a wall, freshly painted; where are 
they?" Or again, "A side-yard gate is fastened by a chain," or "I 
saw one foot of new spouting, up near the eave of a house; where?" 
And so on. 

The Troop, upon getting the message, at once scatters for the 
purpose of locating the objects mentioned. The first to find them 
returns at once, reports, and receives points as per schedule, and the 
Scout receiving the largest number of points wins the game. This 
is a very fine game for teaching observation. 

Another good game is, for want of a better name, called Courier: 
If in the country, different groups are given a message to someone 
some miles away. Each group goes by a different route and delivers 
the message, and also must make a map of the route traveled, noting 
the principal places passed, important buildings, particular trees, 
stone fences, creeks, roads, woods, fields, etc. 

If in town, this game can be played in the same way, but Scouts 
must make reports of streets traversed, important buildings, fire-alarm 
boxes with their numbers, public telephone stations, drug stores, fire 
plugs, trolley-car barns or anything that will make the report more 
complete. 

There is great variation in these games, and a Scoutmaster can 
shift them around and keep the Troop on the jump all the time, and 
at the same time prevent any monotony arising from the games. 

Try them and see for yourself. 



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MR. CHARLES LONGSTRETH S ARAWAN II 

Flagship of Nautical Troop 



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Nautical Troop No. 116 




IpS^L— LONG all tlie different activities of the Scouts, perhaps 

no one thing makes so direct an appeal to the boy himself 
j as the Nautical Troop, under Mr. Charles Longstreih, with 

2s^> the number Ii6. Realizing that the camps and hike-, firsl 
aid. signaling, the altruistic feature- and all the rest of it were well 
taken care of, .Mr. Longstreth in the summer of [912 conceived the 
idea of taking to sea on hi- yacht Arawan II a picked Patrol of boys 
from the four quarters <>f the city. 

With hut one practice trip on the Delaware River, these boys 
were taken to eastern Long I -land, housed on a big catboat, with 
two meal- ashore, and put through a systematic course of instruction 



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in sailing and rowing, swimming, knot tying, splicing, anchoring and 
getting under way, rules of the road, the use of palm and needle, and 
then, to cap the climax, were taken 'way out to sea and taught to 
steer by compass, to work in the engine room, stand watch-and-watch 
and prove their ability with their "sea legs" on. 

No stricter discipline could be imagined than that in vogue on 
the Arawan. While not military or naval in any sense, the instant 
obedience, the absolute cleanliness, the respect for authority and the 
placing" of responsibilities on the boy himself have proved the greatest 
attraction to these boys, one of whom has said : 

"I learned more during the week under Captain Longstreth than 
in any other corresponding period of my life" ; and he is a Princeton 
student. 

Numbering the boys for inspection, we find Protestants, a Greek 
Catholic, a Jew or two, and all walks of life from the well-to-do to 
the poorest boy of the congested section of the city. The boys this 
summer will proceed, after several meetings at Headquarters, for 
theory, and another practice spin on the Delaware, to Barnegat Bay, 
near Island Heights, where, contrary to the scheme of the Boston 
Nautical Troop, which is the school-ship idea, the boys will be placed 
in long boats or dories, five to a boat, each equipped with oars and 
sails, center-board, etc., and will have fleet maneuvers, using the 
Arawan as a flagship. 

These dories will be sufficient to give boys good drill in sailing 
and rowing as well as in various other drills. With this equipment 
it is our intenton to be able to take care of quite a number of Scouts. 
For instance, suppose that one Scoutmaster has eighteen or twenty boys 
with him for a week or so, then the same equipment could be turned 
over to another Scoutmaster, who could use another yacht or house- 
boat for flagship and handle another lot of boys in the same manner, 
so that we could take care of quite a large number of boys with small 
cash outlay. 

The officers are as follows : 

Commander (Scoutmaster) — Charles Longstreth, 427 North 
Thirteenth Street. 

Assistant Scoutmaster — Charles T. Moyer, Lafayette Building. 

Assistant Scoutmaster — J. W. Patton, Independence Hall. 

Coxswains — D. Kennedy, H. Jenkins, E. Wood. 




A VIEW OF PEQL'EA CAMP 

Pequea — Last Summer's Camp 

Located on the banks of the Susquehanna River, fourteen miles 
below Columbia, lies Pequea village. 

McCalls Ferry Dam. four and one-half miles below, has changed 
the river into a beautiful lake known as Tucquan. At this point it 

er one mile wide, affording a fine body of water for canoeing, 
boating, swimming and water games. Miles of fores growth line 
the river. Caves and dens and tangled ravines offer unlimited scope 
ing and over-night hikes. The Pequea Creek comes tum- 
bling down over the rocks, emptying into the river at this point. 

Here is where the Philadelphia Can Scouts 

America was located during the sumn: ;<;i I and : _ It is 

an ideal spot. The only drawback was the distance from Phi! 
phia. The matter of transportation was s is that man 

- .ould have gone to camp had either to stay at hon 
find some place nearer. 




I Troop 6 Camp 



PEQUEA CAMP, I9I2 
2 Camp Kitchen 3 Bridge built by Scouts 



4 Mess Hall 5 Part of Camp 




TREASURE ISLAND, WITH TWO SMALLER ISLANDS IN FOREGROUND 



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Treasure Island 



The New Summer Camp for Boy Scouts 
Under the auspices of Philadelphia Council, Boy Scouts of America 



Compiled by T. TRUXTUN HARE 
Chairman of Treasure Island Committee 



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WENTY-FIVE miles north of Trenton in the Delaware 
River lies Treasure Island, the new camp of the Philadel- 
phia Boy Scouts. It is an island of fifty acres, twenty 
feet above water level and well timbered. Those who have 
enjoyed Pequea in past years will enjoy this camp main- times more. 
Canoeing, sailing, swimming and all water sports lie at their very 
door. 

The mainland on both sides rises from two hundred to live hnn 
dred feel in timbered cliffs threaded with ravines, and the rolling 
nature of the surrounding country makes it an ideal place for hikes. 
A daily round-up at the campfire will be one of the features. Any 
hoy who want- to qualify as a backwoodsman should come to this 
camp this summer. It is going to be a true woodsman's camp. The 
real fun of camping oul is to "buck up" againsl the forces of nature 
and win out, and that is the kind of time the Seoul will have at 
Treasure fsland. 



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TROOP 46 IN CAMP AT TREASURE ISLAND, 1912 

This summer the boys will learn to cook their own meals, "rustle" 
firewood, and be independent. The fresh, clear water of the upper 
Delaware is fine for swimming, and the swimming hole has a hard 
sand bottom. 

Don't miss Treasure Island Camp this summer ! 

Each Troop will be expected to cook its own meals with the 
exception of supper, which will be served at headquarters in the mess 
hall by the camp cook. 




THE FERRY 



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HIKING 



Full rations will be issued daily to each Troop. 

Any Troop unable to prepare a satisfactory meal may, upon appli- 
cation to the Camp Commissioner, receive instructions from the camp 
cook over its own cooking fire. 

The camp is under the personal supervision of the Camp Com- 
missioner of the Boy Scouts, who will be assisted by a physician in 
safeguarding the health of the boys. 

Each Troop must provide its own tents. Philadelphia Head- 
quarters has a limited supply on hand, which will be rented to Troops 
in order of application at Si.oo per week. 




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CANOEING ON THE DELAWARE 



Ship heavy freight to By ram Station, Hunterdon County, N. J., 
on Belvidere Division, Pennsylvania Railroad. 

How to Get to Treasure Island 

Route I. Trolley and hike five miles; 90 cents return. 

Route 2. Steamboat, trolley and hike thirteen miles ; $1 return. 
Good Scouts can get a ride on a canal boat instead of hiking. 

Route 3. Train and hike three miles; $2.03 return. 

Route 4. Automobile. 

Route 5. (After June 15th.) Train to Kingwood, N. J.; no 
hike; about $2.15 return. 

Directions 

Route 1. Trolley to Willow Grove, to Doylestown, to Randt's 
Mills. Then hike east through Wormansville to Smithtown. Turn 
north on River Road half mile to Treasure Island. 

Route 2. Steamboat on Delaware River to Trenton. Trolley 
from Trenton to New Hope. Hike north on towpath of Lehigh Coal 
and Navigation Canal thirteen miles to Treasure Island. 

Route 3. Take train Broad Street Station to Byram. Hike 
north Three miles. 

Route 4. Philadelphia to Willow Grove, to Doylestown by way 
of Hatboro or Doylestown Pike. Doylestown to Point Pleasant. 
From Point Pleasant north three miles over River Road to Treasure 
Island. 



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I'IRATE CRAFT OFF TREASURE ISLAXD 



Route 5. From Broad Street Station over Belvidere Division to 
Kingwood, X. J. Station, directly opposite Treasure Island. Arrange- 
ments will be made to have camp boat meet trains. 

What to Take to Treasure Island 
individual camp list, i913 
A Scout uniform is a boy's best Knife, fork and spoon. 

Bag for brushes, comb, tooth 



suit. 
Suit of old clothes. 
Pair of blankets. 
Rubber blanket or poncho. 



Change of underwear. 

Flannel shirt. 

Fxtra" shoes and stockings. 

Night robe. 

Heavy towels. 



paste, etc. 
Cheap watch. 

Xo firearms are allowed in camp. 
Be sure to bring a musical instru- 
ment if you play one. 
Scout manual. 
Xote book. 

Bathing suit or swimming trunks. 
In so far as possible, Troops will supply mess gear. 

Activities 
All Scout activities will be under the supervision of a competent 
Director, who will record the progress of the Troops. A prize will 
be offered by the Philadelphia Council to be awarded the Troop 
which has the highest standard in the following respects: Camp 
sanitation, neatness, discipline and general efficiency. The Director 
will inspect camps daily for this purpose. 



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CAMP MICHAELSEN ON TREASURE ISLAND, igi2 

The most coveted prize to be given this summer will be the 
cooking prize to be awarded the Troop which has the greatest number 
of competent cooks in its ranks proportionate to its muster roll. 

Visits are expected from time to time by men prominent in the 
Scout movement, who will give campfire talks on practical matters 
of interest to Scouts. 




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SCOUTS PREPARING A MEAL ON HIKE 



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Camping 



By WALTER SCOTT COWING 



Go fish and hunt far and wide by day — farther and wider — 
and rest thee by many brooks and hearth-sides without mis- 
giving. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 
Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventures. 
Let the noon find thee by other lakes and the night overtake 
thee everywhere at home- There are no larger fields than these, 
no worthier games than max here be played. — Thorcau. 




I|EY THERE, you fellows! 

day?" We turn in our blankets, rise on elbow, sir 



night 



Vre you going to sleep all 

etch 
tent 
ast 
's campfire and the self-appointed cook is hustling with his pots 



[Or and peer dimly from half-open eyes out through the 
K opening-. Fresh fire has replaced the dying embers of 1; 



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SAILING CANOE AT CAMP 



and pans. Is it possible we have slept through an hour's racket like 
this while breakfast preparations were going forward? 

From beneath comes the perfume of fresh-cut balsam boughs. 
Overhead in a treetop close by a song sparrow is singing as though 
to burst his little throat for pure joy. The brook near by is singing 
also, and our hearts are singing. 

Yes, life is worth living, and this is life. Business is forgotten; 
the petty cares and worries of the season are forgotten; school and 
college exams are forgotten — we are living, we are care-free. Cowper 
was right — "God made the country, man made the town." Hereafter 
we will devote at least a month of every year to life in the open. 

We will Our reverie is broken. Our unimaginative friend, the 

cook, does not propose to allow the flapjacks to cool, the coffee to 
burn, in order that we may make vows likely to be broken. 

"Here, you, Jack, hustle some firewood for me, a little oak if 
you can find it, for I want some hot coals. 

"And you, Bill, surprise your hands with a little soap and water 
and help me set the table." 

The table was a poncho laid on the ground, rubber side down; 
but what cared we? Aside from the threatenings of the cook, we 
had absolutely nothing in the whole world to fear or worry about. 
The aroma from the coffee, the hiss of the frying-pan were indeed 
breath to our nostrils and music to our ears. 



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A prominent business man stood on the shore of a Maine lake 
for the first time, looking out over its waters to the hills and forests 
beyond. 

"To think," said he, "that for twenty years I have missed this, 
not knowing it was worth while. Oh, how short-sighted I have been !" 

He was only partly right. His conception of camping was a long 
trip into the wilderness, with its attendant preparation, expense and 
loss of time, and he had been too busy amassing a fortune to take 
prolonged vacations into the woods. A trip into the wilderness is 
well worth all that it costs in money, time and effort, for to her 
devotees she returns a full measure of 
health, renewed courage, and experi- 
ence. To thousands such a trip must 
be forever a dream only. 

Is it, then, necessary for men, 
women, boys and girls to forego this 
boon because they live in cities far 
away from the forest primeval ? Had 
our business friend consulted maps of 
the outlying districts adjacent to his 
place of business, he would have dis- 
covered woods and fields, streams 

and mountains, a veritable wilderness awaiting his exploration — places 
where week-ends could be spent clearing away mental cobwebs, 
breathing deep of the pure air of the countryside. 

Particularly fortunate are we who live in or near Philadelphia. 
Scores of streams on which to launch a canoe, hundreds of camping 
sites — ours for the asking. But how shall we go about it? When to? 
Where to? How to? These problems are easily met by anyone who 
has not delayed his camping so long that he lacks the courage of 
initiative. 

The answer to the first question is now. Winter and late fall 
camping present difficulties, but they are not insurmountable. If your 
friend owns a cabin or shack containing bunks and a fireplace or 
stove, it is easy to keep comfortable in the coldest weather. The experi- 
enced camper will get along nicely with a tent and hastily constructed 
back-log, the first for shelter and the latter for heat. 




CAMP CAIilN 



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In the spring and summer, camping in a tent lean-to, or a poncho 
shelter is preferable to sleeping in cabin or shack. The greatest advan- 
tage, however, lies in the fact that with a tent you possess a movable 
house. You can "Let the noon find thee by other lakes and the night 
overtake thee everywhere at home." A second-hand Army tent, large 
enough for two, may be purchased for a dollar and a half or less. 
Carefully inspect it for holes before buying. Wash it with pearline 
and water, rinse in fresh water, then treat with the following: Dis- 
solve one-half pound alum in two gallons of soft water ; dissolve one- 
half pound commercial acetate of lead in two quarts of boiling soft 
water ; then add two gallons cold water ( rain water is best for the 
purpose, but I have used ordinary Schuylkill water successfully); 
allow the acetate of lead solution to precipitate or settle; pour off 

the clear liquid, throwing away 
the residue that has settled at 
the bottom; add the alum solu- 
tion to the lead solution. Have 
a container large enough to hold 
both solution and tent. Immerse 
the tent in the solution, work it 
thoroughly with a stick; soak 
for an hour or two; wring 
lightly, and hang on line to dry. 
After drying, sweep thoroughly. 
The tent will now be water- 
proof and fireproof. Do not use 
this method for waterproofing 
food bags, as advised in some 
books, as acetate of lead is poisonous. Directions for making tents 
of all sizes may be found in the Scout Handbook. For those who do 
not care to make them, tents covering every type and need are pro- 
curable at sporting goods houses. 

Where To: Having selected the location and obtained permis- 
sion to camp there, the following rules should be applied : Site should 




A MINER S WALL TENT 






be on ground high enough to insure good drainage. 



Some sunlight 



should reach the tent. Wood and pure water should be near at 
hand. It is unnecessary and unpardonable that live standing timber 
be disturbed for firewood. In almost every locality enough fallen 
timber is at hand for cooking and campfire. No standing tree should 



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ever be cut unless it is growing within a few inches of another tree 
and shows by its condition that it is already doomed to decay. 

It is quite as important that the camper know how to extinguish 
his fire as it is that he know the best methods of constructing one. 
The camper who leaves the fire burning at his last camping-place is 
brother to the fool who "didn't know it was loaded.'' 

More important either than the consideration of wood or sun- 
light is the problem of pure water. Bear in mind that the germs of 
typhoid and dysentery are so tiny that they cannot be seen with the 
naked eye; that impure water may look and taste pure; that many 
country houses drain their sewage into near-by streams, to be carried 
by them into the river or stream you are camping on ; and finally, 
that the various pocket filters advertised for campers are valuable 
only in clearing the water of vegetable or other visible matter. They 
do not eliminate the danger of typhoid or other disease. Spring water 
well removed from any source of contamination is usually safe. Boil- 
ing renders it absolutely safe, but is a burden only undertaken by 
those who have through years of experience learned caution. 

The following solution has been used successfully by armies on 
the march, may be made up at home or in camp, and will insure safety 
from disease germs in drinking water : In one cup of water mix one 
teaspoonful of chloride of 
lime leveled off In rolling 
a pencil over it as it rests 
in the spoon. This is then 
diluted by adding three 
cups of water. A tea- 
spoonfui of this dilution 
will purify two gallons of 
water. The chloride of 
lime should, of course, be 
obtained from a reliable 
druggist. Typhoid, dys- 
entery and cholera germs 
are destroyed without im- 
pairing taste or quality 
of the drinking water. Multitudes of other questions are to be met 
with and answered by the camper himself, and herein lies one of the 
chief values and joys of camping. 




Till'. KM) OF A CARRY 



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How To: Every locality, season and individual requires some- 
what different consideration. The first question that arises is that 
respecting clothing. A safe rule to go by is that one should wear 
wool next to the skin at all times. Liability to cold from exposure 
is greatly lessened if wool is worn. In checking one's list of camp 
clothing a good idea is to make out a list beginning at the feet and 
working up, thus: Moccasins or shoes, woolen socks, woolen under- 
wear, trousers, belt, etc., until one comes to headgear, which in winter 
should include a covering for the whole head and most of the face, to 
be worn at night. If one follows this method, he is less likely to find 
himself in the woods with but one sock and two neckties. 

Clothing should be packed in a separate bag from other camping 
material, and the bag, of course, should be waterproof. Several light- 
weight woolen blankets are warmer than fewer heavy-weight blan- 
kets. Blankets should be wrapped in poncho or placed in a waterproof 
bag or knapsack. 

The problem of food supply is one that should receive our best 
attention. Quantity and variety depend on the length of the outing 
and climatic conditions. The following list of foods suggested by 
"Abercrombie's Camp" may be used as a basis for working out 
your food list: 



Food for Four Persons for two Weeks 

Flour 24 lbs. 



Cornmeal 10 

Beans 6 

Sugar 10 

Baking Powder 1 

Cresco 3 

Coffee 2 

Butter 6 

Pork 15 

Dried Milk 2 

Oatmeal 2 

Rice 10 



Bouillon Capsules 1 

Soup Greens 1 

Soup Tablets 1 

Evaporated Fruit g 

Salt 1 

Tea 1 

Chocolate, sweetened ... 1 

Bacon . 6 

Dried Eggs 1 

Dried Onions y^ 

Pepper, spice, mustard.. l /x 
Erbswurst 1 



lbs. 



This list may be supplemented by fish and game, and I would 
add to it one-half pound of lime drops as a luxury and digestive. 
Every article of food should be placed in separate waterproof bags, 
which may be purchased for ten cents each. The contents of each bag- 
should be plainly labeled on the outside. These separate food bags 



should then be placed together in a larger bag or knapsack. Only the 
rawest tenderfoot packs food in paper bags with blanket, clothing, etc. 

If one is taking but a short trip of a few days, baker's bread and 
biscuits may be taken instead of flour. It is obvious that the above 
list could not be used on tramping trips where boys are to carry on 
their backs the whole outfit, but for canoeing trips or in saddle the 
list may be followed to advantage. 

Each camper must decide for himself what he can dispense with, 
and herein lies one of the niceties of camping — what not to take. 
Cooking kits suitable for four persons vary in price from S2 to S20. 
and in material from sheet iron and tin to aluminum. One should 
never take into the woods ware with soldered handles or bales. One 
may be equipped very inexpensively if he can take from home most 
of his cooking outfit. 




AX IDEAL CAMP SITE 



The possibility of accident or illness in the woods must be thought 
of. First-aid kits, with instructions for use. are easily obtainable and 
are quite worth the meagre sum charged for them. Do not carry into 
the woods the so-called antiseptic tablets. If they are provided in 
the kit which you obtain, destroy them. They are composed of 
bichloride of mercury and are often mistaken for other tablets of a 
harmless nature. They therefore constitute an ever-present menace. 
A small vial of tincture of iodine with a rubber stopper will admirably 
take the place of the bichloride tablets and is k-ss likely to be misused. 
Wounds painted with a solution of iodine are made instantly anti- 
septic. 



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The same care of one's health which common sense dictates at 
home should be followed while in camp. Perhaps the best medicine 
one can take into the woods at any time is the medicine of good cheer. 

In packing for camp, every article should be easily attainable. 
If in usefulness it does not pay its way, it should be kept from the 
pack. Matches, fishing- and hunting equipment, camera and various 
personal equipment, should be carefully protected in waterproof con- 
tainers. At least one five-pound axe should be taken. Belt axes are 
of service, but are more ornamental than useful if one has to cut hard 
wood or heavy timber. If canoe trips are to be taken, a repair kit is 
an essential. 

Go out into the country and on to the open road. There we 
will find 

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, 
Sermons in stones and good in everything." 

The difficulties encountered, the mistakes made, merely add to 
the adventure and to your stock of useful knowledge. New incentive, 
renewed vigor, fresh joy in living and working await your visit to 
the campfire. Someone who knows has written: 

"How far away seems the city then, zvith its hot pave- 
ments, its tired peoples, its unceasing clang and discord. I give 
in exchange for its stone temples, the silent mountains ; for its 
rivers of humanity, the streams that How through the green 
valleys; for its street lamps, the hemlocks, spruce and pine; 
for its lindens upon the boulevards, the quivering zephyr-szvept 
birch and maple ; for its monuments , the boulders on every hill- 
side; for its voices, the zvhispering depths of the forest; for 
its avenues, the open road winding over the hill into the deep 
of the zvoodland; for its greetings I exchange the songs of 
birds; for its fame and its applause — PEACE. And in all 
this barter mine is the profit." 



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REAL FIRST AID 



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First Aid Principles for Boy Scouts 



Bv DR. HUBLEY R. OWEN 



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«^g^? RIM ARIL Y it must always be remembered that first aid 
llm^^wS, means first aid, and a Scout must not try to assume the 
f£M*=z£%j responsibilities of a doctor after such emergency treatment 
<£%MyY £z) has been afforded, nor should time be lost in securing the 
doctor's opinion. Poor results in cases of wounds, burns and even 
fractures have been due to some overzealous first aid practitioners 
who did not think it necessary to consult the physician. 

The three fundamental points in first aid are: Be prepared, a 
steady band, and a cool head. 

As has been truly said, "a little knowledge is often a dangerous 
thing"; therefore, if you are not well prepared to render first aid, 




CAMP PHYSICIAN TEACHING FIRST AID 



you may do more harm than good. I know of no more important 
branch in your duties as Scouts, and your first ambition should be 
to earn a first aid merit badge. 

Use your head as well as your hands in the application of first 
aid measures. I once asked a Scout how to treat a burn, and was 
told to "make a paste of mud and apply it." Another told me that 
the application of cobwebs to a wound would stop bleeding. It may 
be true that the Indians used such methods, but a Scout who thinks 
would not employ such antiquated and unsanitary means in our present 
enlightened age. 

In simplest language, "shock" is due to an insufficient amount of 
blood being sent to the brain, and the centers which we call the vital 
centers suffer. Vital centers are those centers in the brain which are 
necessary to life, as the breathing center, etc. In order, therefore, to 
help the circulation or blood supply to the brain, the head of the patient 
should be lowered, all the clothing loosened, and the arms and legs 



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bandaged so as to support the veins and favor the return of the blood. 
Bottles filled with hot water, hot bricks or stones or hot blankets. 
should then be placed around the patient to keep up the body heat, 
but remember that such patients are easily burned, and great care 
must be used not to get the bottles, bricks or blankets too hot. Never 
try to give a drink to an unconscious person by pouring it down his 
throat. I have seen this attempted more than once. 

In the treatment of wounds, check hemorrhage by direct pressure 
or tourniquet, dress with sterile dressing and put the part at rest by 
splints or bandages. You will notice that I have omitted saying 
to "cleanse the wound." I believe that unless you have the proper 
facilities at hand you will do more harm than good by attempting to 
wash out the wound. The first aid treatment of wounds in the army 
now omits cleansing the wound until the hospital is reached. 

In giving artificial respiration either by the Schafer or Svlvester 
method, remember to give it slowly, about fifteen times per minute. 
The tendency in the excitement and stress of the moment is to give 
it too rapidly. Do not get discouraged if you do not get results in 
a few minutes, as it is often necessary to give the artificial respirations 
for an hour, working in relays of ten or fifteen minutes each. 

Remember that in burns it is not the degree of the burn which 
endangers life, but the amount of body surface burned; that is. a first 
degree burn of one-half or one-third of the body surface is far more 
dangerous than a third degree burn of an arm or smaller area. 
Remember also that all burns are accompanied by shock, usually a 
serious shock. 

The subject of fractures is an extensive one. However, for this 
article suffice it to say. put the part at absolute rest and observe every 
care in the transportation of the injured. If the fracture be compound, 
add to this a sterile dressing over the wound. Be careful in the lifting 
of the patient to the stretcher, and never let anyone pick the patient 
up bv hands or arms and legs, but two or three should stand on the 
patient's right side. They should kneel on their left knees with right 
knees up, place their hands under the patient and at the count of three 
all lift and place patient on right knees: then get a firm grip on patient 
and again at count of three all rise to their feet, having patient 
securely in their arms. 

Remember — Be prepared, a cool head, and a steady hand. 



The Scout in Athletics 



By T. TRUXTUN HARE 



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gjgdm O ANYONE interested in the physical development of the 
growing boy, the Scout movement must make an appeal. 
$ It stands for the normal, healthy development of the indi- 
C^=^M vidual; for the instilling of a high moral standard and 
intelligent citizenship — in short, for a clean mind in a healthy body. 

It is a recognized fact that the boy who takes a pride in his 
physical fitness usually ranks high morally, and as a result we have 
had a revival of all sorts of athletic sports in this country during the 
last twenty years to an extent never before known. The beneficial 
results are already to be seen, and one would not willingly return to 
the days before athletics were a recognized part of a school or college 
training. Many a man in business to-day owes his sound constitution 
and his ideals of fair play to the athletic field, and the world has 
benefited. 

Of recent years, however, athletics have bulked so large in the 
public eye, and competition has grown so keen, that there is danger 
not only to the mental development of the schoolboy but his physical 
development as well. 

It is a national characteristic to find pleasure in exercise only 
when it is competitive, and with this failing in mind, those in charge 
of young men and boys have bent their energies toward supplying 
competitive sport to all, urged by the broad principle that exercise is 
beneficial. 

To boys of eighteen and over no physical harm can normally 
result, but in encouraging competitive physical tests among the 
younger, harmful, if not serious, erTects are only too frequently the 
outcome. 

In the six years between the ages of twelve and eighteen, which 
are the limits fixed for becoming a Scout, a boy's organs are in process 
of development ; this development is aided by exercise, but only when 
the boy puts no strain upon himself which he is not prepared to stand. 



y 

Left to himself, a boy will rarely carry his exercise to the point of 
exhaustion ; he will stop when nature tells him to : but if he is repre- 
senting his school or club, there is danger that his pride will force 
him to call upon his nervous vitality. An adult can do this safely: 
to the growing boy it is disastrous. A great trainer once said that 
a large proportion of boys who came under his eye at college never 
developed their full capabilities because they had been "burnt out" 
while schoolboys. 

If the American boy can be taught to exercise for the sake of 
having a clear brain, a fresh skin and obedient muscles, and be con- 
tent to wait until he is eighteen to try his powers against a rival in 
. ious competition, athletics in our schools will be doing the most 
good and the boy will reach manhood in the best possible condition. 

Athletics, as such, play a small part in the life of a Boy Scout, 
yet competitive sport is the backbone of the movement. This is 
accomplished, first, by making a great part of the competition against 
a fixed standard instead of against a live rival, and second, where the 
boys are thrown in direct competition, by making the test one of 
memory, sight, hearing or quickness, to succeed in which a boy must 
be active and in good muscular condition, and yet not making speed 
-:rength the prime requisite, as in ordinary athletics. 

It is surprising, for instance, with what earnestness a Troop : 
Boy Scouts will follow a trail for four or five miles to find some imagi- 
nary hidden treasure, the finder to win some small prize. The trail 
is laid so faint that the boys are forced to stop often to puzzle it out. 
and therefore cannot overfatigue themselves. Compare the value of 
this sport to the growing boy with a cross-country run of three 
four miles. 

The games of man-hunt, smugglers and stalking are based on 
similar principles, to say nothing of learning to cook, to make camp, 
to signal, to swim, and a hundred other activities. In short, the basic 
idea is to make the boy take outdoor exercise zcliile doing something 
else. 

The Scout movement to-day is steadily growing, and in a few 
years, when the present Scout has reached the age limit and gone 
forth with his honorable discharge, it will come into its own. 

For no Scout will reach manhood "burnt out." 



Folk Misunderstood 



By SAMUEL SCOVILLE, Jr. 
With Photographs by J. Fletcher Street 




ANY boys, even those brave enough to be Boy Scouts, are 
afraid of snakes. The same is true of men. Old Kit 
Carson, the Indian fighter, used to say that he would 
rather face ten Indians than touch one snake. This feeling 
is apt to interfere with one's pleasure in out-of-door life. It comes 
from knowing so many things about snakes which aren't so. 

Many a boy is sure that all "adders" and water-snakes are ven- 
omous. There are only two poisonous snakes throughout the Eastern 
States — the timber-rattlesnake and the copperhead. Both of these 
are not only rare, but can be 
easily recognized. All the other 
snakes, whether they are called 
adders, vipers, racers or mocca- 




sins, are harmless. 

You can pass a long life 
and never meet a bad snake. 
Snakes never attack. They are The Timber Rattlesnake 

only too anxious to get away. They are never slimy like eels. They 
can't charm birds or anything else. No snake has a "stinger" 
in the end of its tail, nor is its forked tongue a sting. There are 
no such things as hoop-snakes. A snake's tail won't wiggle until 
sunset after the snake is killed. Cows are never milked by milk- 
snakes, nor will any snake drink milk if it can get water. Black- 
snakes can't kill a rattlesnake, nor wind around a boy's neck and 
choke him. A snake never bites itself, although one kind pretends 
to do so. The poisonous snake cannot hurt itself or any other 
snake of that kind. Whisky will not cure a snake-bite, and, taken in 
large quantities, is the worst thing that can be done. Finally, if a 
boy can bring himself to handle a snake a few times, all fear or horror 
of it disappears. 



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Now, taking the two venomous snakes first, both the rattlesnake 
and the copperhead are "pit-vipers" and have a deep pit or hole 
between the eye and the nostril. The pupil of the eye of a venomous 

snake is oval and that of a harm- 
less snake round. The rattle- 
snake, of course, can be told by 
his rattle. The copperhead has 
dark and light-brown markings 
shaped like dumb-bells, and a 
light, sometimes copper-colored 
head. 

If bitten by either, at once 
cut a gash the depth of the fang- 
marks, and through them suck 
out all the blood possible, first 
tying a string or handkerchief 
tight between the marks and the 
heart. This string should not be 
'"T*'- jjj? left on for over ten minutes. If 

\ :■':?■ if a&s ^tf-x ^t i.-s -.-y^* *■-•:- d- ■■ j, — i 1 j 1 cr . get some crystals of 
The Copperhead permanganate of potash and put 

into the cuts, or put them into 
water until it turns purple and wash the cut out. After all this is 
done, small doses of whisky will help. Very much will take away 
the last chance for life. If a doctor can be found, he should give 
hypodermics of strychnine to keep the heart going. The cut should 
be kept covered with a wet antiseptic dressing. 

Both the rattlesnake and the copperhead gather together in the 
fall in certain ledges, where they sleep during the winter. In the 
spring they come out and stay around these dens for several weeks. 
Of all the snakes, the most common is the garter or striped snake. 
It is the earliest snake out in the spring and the last to go into winter 
quarters. This snake can be told by its three light stripes, one on the 
back and two on the sides. Like the common water snake, it has the 
bad habit, when caught, of giving off a bad smell. 

The blacksnake has a reputation as dark as its skin. It is sup- 
posed to chase boys, charm birds and to be an all 'round bad snake. 




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Blacksnake on the Ground 



As a matter of fact, its one idea 
is to get away as rapidly as 
possible. 

The prettiest of all snakes 
is the little green grass snake, 
of which there are two kinds, 
one having smooth and the other 
rigid scales. This tiny snake 
lives entirely on insects and looks 
like a bit of jewelry. 

A companion to the green 
snake in gentleness and size is 
the DeKay snake, a little brown, large-eyed snake with a light 
streak along' the back, bordered on either side by a row of black dots. 
This slender little snake rarely exceeds a foot in length. It is fond of 
hiding under stones and cans in rubbish heaps, and, like the striped 
snake, can be found within the limits of our cities. 

The common red-bellied or banded water snake is the snake 
oftenest found in our Eastern waters. It can always be told by the 
red blotches and clouded spots of black and gray on the belly. This 

snake is an ugly, vicious snake, 
but is one of the shyest of all 
snakes and will always get to 
water and swim away if pos- 
sible. In the spring this snake 
is sometimes found in the woods 
far from water. The writer 
once found one as big around 
as a man's arm and over three feet long, crackling through dry under- 
brush like a small python, fully a half mile from the nearest water. 
When cornered this water snake hisses and strikes viciously and 
blindly with open mouth, and gives out a smell like the smell of rotten 
peaches. It lives principally upon fish and frogs. The color is usually 
a dingy brown with indistinct bands, but the belly is always checkered 
with red blotches. It is often called a moccasin, but is not related in 
any way to the dangerous Southern "cottonmouth," which never has 
red on the belly and is a pit-viper not found above North Carolina. 







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Another slandered snake is the milk snake or checkered adder. 
The ground color of this snake is gray, and it is checkered with a 
series of dark brown or dark red blotches edged with black. Because 
it is found near milk-houses and stables, where it feeds on mice and 
rats, it is supposed to steal milk and milk cows. 

Last on this list comes the most interesting and the most mis- 
understood of our snakes. The puff adder, blowing viper or hog- 
nosed snake is everywhere regarded as a venomous, dangerous snake. 

No diamond-backed rattler or 
Australian death adder is fiercer 
to look at than this common 
snake. If the puff adder were 
as bad as he pretends to be, he 
would be the fiercest and most 
dangerous of American snakes 




The Puff Adder 



instead of the gentlest, 
ought to be called 



It really 
the bluff 
adder, for it never really bites. 
It is short, stumpy, usually mottled and blotched, and can always be 
told by its sharp, upturned snout, which gives it its name of 'hog- 
nosed snake." 

Air. Puff Adder is a slow snake and has no fangs, so he has 
learned to depend on his brains for safety. The writer was once 
walking along a wood-road in New Jersey with the affable and tal- 
ented gentleman who took the photographs which illustrate this article. 
This friend in those days knew nothing about snakes, and when the 
writer pointed out to him a large puff adder coiled by his foot, he did 
a standing broad jump that nearly broke the world's record. 

The writer stretched out his hand toward the snake, and then 
began a performance which is always the same. Drawing a deep 
breath, the snake swelled to double its former size. The head flat- 
tened until it was nearly a hand-breadth in width, and as the gold 
color of the sides of the scales showed, the head and neck seemed 
actually* to flash. Hissing sharply enough to be heard yards away, 
it struck viciously again and again against the writer's outstretched 
hand — but with month tight shut. Suddenly it stopped this perform- 
ance and gaped and gulped until an early lunch in the shape of a 
large toad came up and hopped away into the underbrush, evidently 
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Then came act number two of the little sketch. With gaping 
mouth the snake writhed, apparently in great agony. Finally a loop 
of its quivering body passed through the open jaws, and with a last 
convulsive shudder the snake turned over and lay limp and motion- 
less, with open mouth and hanging tongue, seemingly dead and gone. 
There was only one mistake it made. It had evidently been taught 
that every really dead snake should lie on its back. Accordingly, 
every time the writer placed it on its stomach it would slowly turn 
over until its back was again against the ground. In every other 
respect the part of a snake suicide was perfectly performed. Not a 
muscle quivered even when a stick was poked into the open mouth. 
Hung over a bough, the limp body swung lifeless. 

Finally the snake was placed on the ground again and the audi- 
ence retired back of a bush. For some minutes the death scene con- 
tinued. At last, very, very slowly, the body rolled over, the jaws 
shut, and an inquisitive head was cautiously raised. Convinced that 
all danger had been escaped by good acting, the pleased puff adder 
was scurrying toward the underbrush when stopped by the writer. 
Much disgusted, it refused to give an encore and gave up pretending 
to be either fierce or dead. This particular snake afterwards became 
a pet and was named "Crawly." The only fault that could be laid 
to its charge was a certain lack of hospitality toward other snakes. A 
fair-sized DeKay snake once shared its quarters. The next morning 
the stranger was gone, with nothing to mark its whereabouts save a 
suspicious lump amidships in Crawly. 

The above list contains all the snakes that are commonly met. 
There are perhaps a dozen others that may be occasionally seen. 
Among these are the pine snake, a big, harmless, brown-and-white 
reptile that lives in the pine-barren region and greets strangers with 
a hiss like the exhaust of a steam engine ; the ring-necked snake, a 
gentle little fellow that lives under bark and stones and has a white 
ring around its black neck ; the ribbon snake, a slender reptile closely 
related to the striped snake ; the queen snake, a water snake which 
also looks much like a striped snake; the king snake, which is not 
affected by the poison of any American snake and can kill- the largest 
rattler in a fair fight by winding around it like a steel band. 



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Aberfoyle Manufacturing Co. 

CHESTER, PA. 



310 Lafayette Building 72 Leonard Street 

PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK 

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Clark's 
Iron Foundry 

J. ALFRED CLARK, Proprietor 

35th Street, Gray's Ferry Road 
and Wharton Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



General Founders 

High-Grade Castings in Loam 
Green and Dry Sand 



Chemical Work a Specialty 
Builders' Iron Work 



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Charles Bond Company 



Manufacturers of 



Oak Tanned 
Leather Belting 



and 



Power Transmitting Machinery 



Dealers in 



Mine, Mill and Engineers' Supplies 



520 ARCH STREET 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A. 



Are You Looking 

for a Pocket Screw Driver ? 




HERE IS ONE 



3 INCHES LONG 



"YANKEE" No. 60 

Fits the screws Fits the purse 

Fits the hand Fits the pocket 

Fit for any man or boy 

Steel — nickel-plated and polished — 
very attractive. The four blades are 
carried in the handle. Price, 65 cents 
postpaid. GET A "YANKEE" 
TOOL BOOK. Tells you all about 
them. A postal brings it. 

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Axes 

Hatchets, Hammers 

Sledges 

High-Grade Tools for High-Grade 
Mechanics 

The Standard by which all other Tools 
are Judged 

Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. 

PHILADELPHIA 
Makers of Official Scout Axe 



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STAMPING CO. 

Manufacturers of 

Sheet Metal Products 

20-52 Herman Street 
Germantown, Pa. 



METAL REFLECTORS 
KEYSTONE" CORRUGATED CULVERT 

DIRECT AND INDIRECT LIGHTING 
INSTALLATIONS 

SANITARY WALL COVERING 

PRESSED STEEL PULLEYS 



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Manufacturers of 

Automatic 
Stamping and Embossing 

PRESSES 



N. W. Cor. 20th and Clearfield Sts. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Hunter & Dickson Co. 
PIPE, FITTINGS 

AND 

BRASS GOODS 

For Gas, Steam and Water 

241, 243, 245 Arch Street 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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DAVID D. LUPTON, Treasurer 
E. T. WILKINSON, Secretary 



David Lupton's Sons Co. 

Special Construction for 
Light and Ventilation 
in Fireproof Buildings 



Main Office and Works 
Allegheny Avenue and Tulip Street 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CHICAGO OFFICE 
921 Peoples Gas Bldg. 



PITTSBURGH OFFICE 
1415 Oliver Bldg. 



NEW YORK OFFICE 
50 Church St., Hudson Terminal 



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Fire and Marine Insurance 
Company 

N. E. Cor. Chestnut and Seventh Streets 
PHILADELPHIA • 



Assets 



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UNITED FIREMEN'S 
INSURANCE COMPANY 

OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



January 1, 1913 

Capital ... ■ • - ... $ 400,000.00 

Assets 1,801,645.56 

Net Surplus 187,733.27 

Surplus to Policyholders 
$587,733.27 



OFFICERS 

ROBERT B. BEATH, President 
LOUIS S. AMONSON, Vice-President 
HENRY T. ALLEY, Secretary 
HENRY A. KNABE. Agency Secretary 
WILLIAM G. WIBLE. Asst. Secretary 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Elmer E. Brown Thomas K. Ober, Jr. 

Percy M. Chandler Maurice W. Sloan 

Sydney W. Ffoulkes George A. Smith 

Josiah A. McKee Louis Wagner 

George B. Wells 



Incorporated 1829 Charter Perpetual 

The Franklin 
Fire Insurance Company 

PHILADELPHIA 

ALFREO E DUNCAN EDGAR P. LUCE 

President Secretary 

Capital $ 500,000.00 

Reserve for re-insurance 1,985,890.26 

Reserve for unpaid losses .... 154,868.93 
Reserve for other contingencies . . 80,203.47 

Net Surplus 641,852.74 

Total Assets, Jan. 1, 1913 $3,362,815.40 

It has honorably met every demand 
on its resources 

St. Lou.s, 1849— $294,855.42 
Philadelphia. Pa., 1 850— $ 1 1 ,302.67 
Chicago, 1871 -$635,429.39 
Boston, 1872- $45 1,504.97 
Baltimore, 1904 - $1 53.9 14.26 
San Francisco, 1 906- $1,325,882.00 

Losses Paid since Organization $24,910,173.34 

Does a General Fire and Tornado 
Insurance Business 

Desirable Agents Wanted 



Jfraternal Jllpsittc 
Circle 

One of the oldest Fraternals 
Founded in 1 884 

$6,000,000.00 

Paid to Beneficiaries and Members 
Eligible persons admitted between the ages of 

I 8 and 55. 
Death Benefits, $500.00 to $3000.00. 
Sickness and Accident Benefits. 
Permanent Total Disability Benefits. 
Old Age Disability Benefits. 
Adequate Rates — National Fraternal Congress 

and American experience Tables used. 
Beautiful and Impressive Ritualistic Work. 
Representative Form of Government. 
A National Organization. 

Headquarters 

F. M. C. Building, 1913 Arch St. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



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prevented from spreading through 

the action of 


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Ten thousand of these fires were 
entirely put out by the Sprinklers 


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installed by 


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General Fire Extinguisher Co. 


Automatic Sprinkler Company of America 

Manufacturers of and Contractors for 


Executive Offices: Providenc , R. I. 
Philadelphia Office: Mutual Life Bldg. 

J. J. WERNLE, Department Agent 


Automatic Fire Protection Equipment 

328 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa. 


Plants, Warehouses and Branch Offices in Principal 
Cities of United States and Canada 


The 
John T.Dyer Quarry Co. 


"PROCTOR" 
DRYING MACHINES 


Norristown, Pa. 


Most economical and 




efficient machines for 





drying cotton, wool, 
hair, silk, rags, stock- 


BIRDSBORO 


ings, knit goods, etc. 
If you have any dry- 


TRAPPE ROCK 


ing to do in your 
business tell us about 
it. We can help you. 


Harrison Building 
Philadelphia 


The PhiladelpriaTextile iyUcmNERYCo. 
dept.x Philadelpaia.Pa. 


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HOTEL HANOVER 


Chestnut and Twenty-second Street 
PHILADELPHIA 


Arch and 1 2th Sts., Philadelphia 




Located in the very heart of 
Philadelphia's most select resi- 


EUROPEAN PLAN 


Rooms without bath $ 1 .00 per day and up 


dential section, yet within ten 


Rooms with bath $1.50 per day and up 


minutes' walk of the railroad 


Running Hot and Cold Water and Telephone 


stations, shopping district and 


in Every Room 


theatres. 


Service the Best Cuisine Unexcelled 


An Exclusive Cafe — Cuisine and 


Table d'Hote Dinner 50c, 1 2 to 8 p. m. 

Special Table d'Hote Dinner $1.00, 12 to 
8 p. m. 


service of the Highest Standard 


European Plan, $1.50 per Day and Up 




American Plan, $4.00 per Day and Up 


Vocal and Instrumental Music in Cafe 

CLAUDE M. MOHR, Mgr. 




CHARLES DUFFY, Manager 


New Fireproof 


Standard Refrigerator Co. 


Hotel Ikpston 


2543-5-7 Germantown Avenue 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


Home of the Commercial Man 




Twelfth and Market Streets 


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Opposite Reading Terminal 




Three minutes from Broad Street Station 


Manufacturer of the highest grade 


All Modern Improvements 




Elevators; telephones in most of the rooms. 


Refrigerators for Commercial and 


Lighted by electricity. Running hot and cold 
water in every room. 


Domestic purposes ; also Fixtures 


A visit will convince you that this is the 
place to make your home while in Philadelphia. 


for Butchers and Grocers. 


Room Rates per Day : 




Single, $1.00 and up !_._.., „ 

_ ... _ , 4 ,- Bath Privileges e ree 
Double, $1.50 and $2.00 ) 6 


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R. M. BRYSON, Manager 


Estimates cheerfully given 


Bell Telephone, Filbert 2548 




Keystone, Race 2324 


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GEAE WHEELS 

GEAR CTJTTIiSrG 

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C^-T^JLOGX'E'OT REQUEST 

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The 
DeFrain Sand Company 



Building Materials 

Beach and Berks Streets 

Philadelphia 

i Berks St.. Delaware River 
I Christian Sr . Schuylkill River 

Deliveries by Barge. Rail or Team 



JAMES M. HAMILTON 

PLANING 
MILL 

Sixth and Barclay Streets 
Chester. Pa. 



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JOHN E. HAND & SONS CO. 

Manufacturers 

NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS 

Chronometers. Charts and Books 
Adjusters of Compasses 

General Ofrice and Salesroom 

222 Walnut Street 
Philadelphia 



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three yards on the selvage 



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Manufacturers of 



Tapes, Bindings 



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Narrow Fabrics 



2046-48 Amber Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



THEO. F. MILLER 
Pres. and Gen"l Mgr. 



F. LEIGHTON KRAMER 

Vice-Pres. and Treas. 



Turkish Towels 
Turkish Bath Rugs 



STAR and CRESCENT CO. 
Philadelphia 

New York Salesroom 

242 FOURTH AVENUE 



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WOOLEN and MERINO 
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Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Dyer of 

Cotton Warps, Woolen and 
Worsted Skein Yarns 

Germantown Dye Works 

53-55 Wister Street 

Germantown, Pa. 

Telephone Connection 



Geo. S. Cox & Bro, 



Incorporated 



Manufacturers of 



HAIR CLOTH 



& 



Cambria and Ormes Sts. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



The 

William H. Lorimers Sons 
Company 

Manufacturers of 

Mercerized Yarns for all Purposes 

Ontario and Lawrence Streets 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



K. R. Allen 



J. J. Diamond 



The Allen Dyeing Co. 

Dyers and Bleachers of 

Cotton and Woolen Yarns 

N. E. Cor. Trenton Ave. and Cambria St. 
Philadelphia 



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F. A. Bochmann &b Co., Inc. 

Second and Cambria Streets 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



Globe Dye Works Co. 

DYERS, BLEACHERS AND 

MERCERIZERS 

OF COTTON WARPS 
AND SKEIN YARNS 

Also Dealers in Mercerized Yarns 
140 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 



Globe Dye and Bleach Works 

Oxford and Worth Streets 
FRANKFORD, PA. 



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Dyeing and Bleaching 
Cotton and Mercerized 

WARPS and SKEIN YARNS 



Cedar and Cambria Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 

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The Ontario Dyeing Co. 

Incorporated 

Ontario and D Streets 



Mercerizers and Dyers Fine Yarns and Cross Dye 

Cotton Slcein and Warps a Specialty 

Both Phones 



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DYERS 

Cotton Warps. Cotton and Worsted Yarns 

1929-39 E. Westmoreland St. 
Philadelphia 



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President and Manager 



PILLING & MADELEY, Inc. 



PHILIP M. REYNOLDS 

Treasurer 

S8 Pearl St., Boston, Mass. 



Ianufacturers of 



High Grade Hosiery 



Huntingdon St. and Trenton Ave. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



SELLING AGENTS 
SHREVE & ADAMS, 86 Leonard St., New York 



COLUMBIA TOWEL MILLS 

W.H.&A.E.Margerison 
& Company 

Manufacturers ot 

Turkish Towels 
Terry Cloth 

Jacquard Novelties 

Special Facilities for Name - Work for Hotels, 
Bath Houses, etc. 

Northwest Corner 

Emerald and Sergeant Streets 

Philadelphia 

New York Office — 5 1 Leonard Street 



JOHN WALTON 



WM. H. WALTON 



Established 1853 



Jacob W. Walton Sons 

HORN COMB 
MANUFACTURERS 



Frankford 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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151 W. Thompson St., Philadelphia 

WORKS 
Hancock, Maschet and Thomp- -/^itfKvi^^ 

son Sts., Philadelphia / f \$$*/ All 

jp yS Colors 
Dyed en 
Wool and Cot- 
ton Yarns, Hosiery, 
<^^y^ Jersey Cloth and Eider- 
^\v> ^/ down, Athletic Sweater and 
" s Cardigan Yarns. Bleaching of 
Hosiery and Knit Goods. 



Address al 
communications 
to Works. 



Frankford Waste Co. 

Manufacturers of 

MATTRESS TOPPINGS 

PACKING WASTE 
WIPING WASTE 

Van Dyke &i> Orchard Streets 

FRANKFORD, PHILA. 



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Manufacturer of 



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Wayne and Bristol Streets 
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INCORPORATED 



LOCK CORNER BOXES 

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PARQUETRY FLOORING 
MOULDINGS 



814 to 832 N. Lawrence St. 
Philadelphia 



It All Depends Upon the Dye 

Nicetown Dye Works 

Dyers of 

Fine Hosiery and Yarns 

The only process 
that combines clean 
lustrous finish with 
full strength of goods 






Office and Works 

Westmoreland and C Streets 
Philadelphia 



Joseph R. Foster &: Sons 

DYERS and 
FINISHERS 




2d, Clearfield and Lippincolt Streets 

PHILADELPHIA 



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WHARF PROPERTIES £? 
COMMERCIAL BUILD- 
INGS A SPECIALTY 

LIST MAILED 



Established 1886 

W. Bruce Barrow 

Real Estate 

130 North Twelfth Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bell and Keystone Telephones 



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Both Phones 

Factory : 432 Wallace Street 

Office : 435 Green Street 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CASSELLA COLOR 
COMPANY 

(American Branch of Leopold Cassella & Co.) 

Aniline, Colors and Dye Stuffs 

New York Boston Philadelphia 

Providence Atlanta 

Montreal, Canada 

126 and 128 South Front St. 
Philadelphia 



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Don't forget to take along 
a few bottles of that 
pleasure invoking, in- 
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beverage 

Hires 

There is no drink purer, 
better, more refreshing and 
thirst quenching. 

Dirnk Hires 

at fountains or in bottles 
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Some people think only 
about price, others consider 
quality and service. To the 
latter The Hoskins Store 
appeals. 

We carry a complete 
stock of Stationery, Blank 
Books and Office Fur- 
niture, ready for prompt 
delivery at reasonable prices. 
"Not how cheap but how 
good" is our motto. Give 
us a trial. 



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Myles F. Martin H. E. Dailey Martin J. Mesley 

Keystone 
Hardwood Floor Company 

7 South Sixteenth Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hardwood and Parquetry 
Floors 

All Kinds Finishing Material 
Planing and Scraping Refinishing Old Floors 

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Fathers and Mothers Please Read 

We are helping your boy to grow into a healthy, 
active man. 

Through playing the great American game of base- 
ball, your boy learns discipline, quickness of eye, the 
necessity for sure, certain decisive action of brain and body 
and the value of team work. 

He does this while enjoying healthy, hearty out- 
door exercise. 

We are so much in sympathy with the boys of 
Philadelphia that we are offering just now over $2000 
worth of mngnificent Baseball Outfits, Big League Game 
Tickets, anH other prizes for Frcihofer Labels from Vienna, 
Shaker, Quaker, Butter Krust, or any other Freihoter Bread. 

Doe; your boy know ? Full information in the 
evening papers or from notices at your grocers ! 




Bread 



is the most delicious, wholesome, nourishing bread you 

can buy. The best bread in Philadelphia, made by the 
most scientific, sanitary methods. 

Amonc Frelhofer's breads you will rind one that 
exactly suit-, your taste, They are all good. 

Buy Freihofer Bread now. Save the labels for your 
I'" '.rone of your neighbor's boys. Von will earn their 
lastim.' gratitude. 

FREIHOFER BAKING COMPANY 



Main Office : 



20th Street and Indiana Av.-nue 
P hiladelphia 



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"Aurora" Drapery Fabrics 

PHILADELPHIA 



Your Home Deserves 




VARNISHES 
FILLERS 
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Artloom Tapestry Portieres 
Couch Covers and Table Covers 

are equal in style and quality to the foreign 
goods and are sold by all first-class depart- 
ment stores at about )'-i price of the 
imported. 

Look for the label "Artloom." 

It is on all genuine fabrics. 



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ROSE MFG. CO. 

PHILADELPHU, U. S. A 




"F-S" producls 
don't work by 
the clock — they 
are on the job 
all the time. 

For steps and porch floors, 

we especially recommend our 

Diamond Hard-Drying Floor 

Paint. It dries unusually hard, 

and is made to withstand the hardest kind of wear. 

FELTON, SIBLEY & CO., Inc. 

Manufacturers of Colors, Paints, Varnishes 

136-140 N. Fourth Street Philadelphia 



OUR POLICIES 

Contain all the Modern Privileges. 

Loan, Cash and Extended Insurance 
Weekly 
Monthly 
Ordinary 
Ordinary Policies contain our Popular Disability Clause 

The HOME Life Insurance Company 
of AMERICA 



Policies issued on all ages from 3 months 
to 60 years. 



Basil S. Walsh, President 
Jos. L. Durkin, Sec'y Edw. P. Madden, Treas. 

416-18-20 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 




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Bell Phone. Oak Lane 222 


Mississippi Pearl 


JOHN THOMAS 


Button Co. 


M ^ le iS K STONE WORKS 


M ANUFiCTUHERS OF 


4710-12-14-16 N. Fifth St. 


FRESH WATER PEARL BUTTONS 


Philadelphia. Pa. 

All Kinds of Building and Cemetery "Work 
Jobbing Promptly Attended to 


1017 ARCH STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 


Residence. 2444 Xorth Second Street 


PENINA. 


Geo. Royie & Co. 




Manufacturers of 


COMPLIMENTS OF THE 


Upholstery Goods 


COPE KNITTING MILLS 




Germantown, Pa. 


Frankford 




Philadelphia, Pa. 




H. S. VILA COLOR CO. 


BORDEN STOVE CO. 


INCORPORATED 




Importers and Dealers in 

ANILINE COLORS 

AND 


RANGES 

FURNACES 

REFRIGERATORS 


DYE EXTRACTS 


Showrooms and Warehouses 


Fast Colors tor Cotton. Wool. Silk and Leather 


I 18. 120 and 1 12 North Second Slreet 


243 S. Second St.. Philadelphia 


Philadelphia 


Jacob Miller Sons & Co. 


BRANDLE & SMITH CO. 

Exclusive Manufacturers of 




Original Specialties in 


EAGLE 
SHIRTS 


HARD £fc£bj CANDY 




Makers of the Celebrated 


16th and Reed Streets 


MELLOWMINTS 


Philadelphia 


Eighth Street Dauphin Street Ninth Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



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Hodgson & Beatty 


Highest Grade 


Card Stamping and Repeating 


Lehigh Coal 


For all Textile Fabrics 


Main Office: National Bank Bldg., Germantown 
West Philadelphia Office: 6225 Woodland Ave. 


Also Repeating for Throw Overs for 
Fine and French Index 


| Haines St. and Reading Ry., Gtn. 
«• a rrxo J Clinton St. Newton Ry., Olney 
YARDS: 1 Morris and Price Sts. (Penna. R. R.), Gtn. 

1 63d and Eastwick, "West Philadelphia 


3 1 5 West Lehigh Avenue 
Philadelphia 


THOMAS MEGOWAN 


Joseph D. Swoyer & Co. 


Cotton and Worsted 


Manufacturers of 




WOOLEN AND WORSTED 

YARNS 


* winding 




Mills, Howard and Berks Streets 


Adams Ave. and Church St. 


Mariner and Merchant Building 


Frankford -:- Philadelphia 


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The Peerless Company 




SKEIN SILK DYERS 


Taubel Brothers 






1845 E. Willard Street, Philadelphia 


Hosiery Manufacturers 

Cedar and Huntingdon Streets 




Your Scout Shoes 


Philadelphia, Pa. 


Buy at Hansen's 
All Styles 




HANSEN & CO. 




Shoes and Hosiery 

2434 Kensington Avenue 

Philadelphia, Pa. 


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J. P. WILSON 
Commission Merchant 

1 1 6 Dock Street 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Receiver of 

Southern Fruits and Vegetables 
Wenatchee Valley, State of Washington 
and New York State Apples 



ESTABLISHED 1865 Phones I J"**"? *j°, , 71 

I Lombard 152 1 

BEAM, TURNER CO. 

Distributors of 

Butter - Eggs - Cheese 
Poultry 

9 South Water Street 
Philadelphia -:- Pennsylvania 

Wm. T. Mullikin Co., Inc. 
Foreign and Domestic 

Fruits and Nuts 



140 Dock Street Philadelphia 



BUY 

CROCKER'S BEST 

FLOUR 



Compliments of 

EDSON BROS. 

Wholesale Dealers 

Butter, Eggs, Cheese 
Poultry and Game 



Nos. 110 and 112 Dock St. 
Philadelphia 



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3 7 South Water Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



REFERENCE: Corn Exchange National 
Bank, Philadelphia, and Commercial Agencies 



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ESTABLISHED 18B3 

ROB'T B. LEHMAN 



CRAWFORD & LEHMAN 

Receivers and 
Wholesale Dealers in 

Fine Butter, Poultry a j£ Eggs 

No. 332 North Front Street 
Philadelphia 



ALFRED C. HAINES 

Plate and 'Window 

GLASS 



'White Leads, Zincs, Colors, Oils, 
Varnishes, Etc. 

56 N. Front Street, Philadelphia 



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A.F. BICKLEY&SON 

520 and 522 North Second Street 
PHILADELPHIA 

Distributors of 

Fancy Creamery Butter 

and 

High Grade Eggs 



Keystone, Main 1297 
Main 1298 



Bell, Market 337 
Market 338 



RISSER BROS. CO. 

Wholesale 
Commission Merchants 

BUTTER, EGGS 

LIVE AND DRESSED 

POULTRY 

LARD AND COMPOUND 
214-216 Callowhill Street Philadelphia 



W. F. SWAN 

416-20 WALNUT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 



General Agent 

The Ocsan Accident and Guarantee Corp. Lta 
of Lendon, England 



WOLF KLEBANSKY 

Importer and Dealer in RUSSIAN and SIBERIAN 

HORSE HAIR 

AND 

BRISTLES 

MANES and all kinds of ANIMAL HAIR Supplied 

to the CURLED HAIR TRADE 

Also Manufacturer of DRAWN HAIR for the Supply 

of Brush Manufacturers and Hair Cloth Weavers 

Office: 246 S. 3d St., Philadelphia 

Factory: 24-3, 245 and 247 S. Orianna Street 



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r irth & F oster Company 
PHILADELPHIA 

Dyers and Finishers 

of Piece Goods exclusively in fine 
Worsteds, Mohairs, Suitings, and 
Silk and Wool Fabrics. 

Redyeing of Dress Goods and 
Suitings a specialty. 



Mutual Fire Insurance Company 

of Germantown and its Vicinity 
5521 Germantown Avenue 

Germantown, Phila., Pa. 



WM. H. EMHARDT, President 

MARSHALL T. FARRA. Vice-President 

CHAS. H. WEISS, Secy and Treas. 



Zenith Mills 

Curtains and Draperies 

Allegheny Avenue and Second Street 
Philadelphia 



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Ideal location in Philadelphia's 
most beautiful suburb. College 
Preparatory, Academic and 
Special Courses with individual 
instruction. Music, Art, Elo- 
cution. Resident French and 
German teachers. New build- 
ing for School erected adjacent 
to Home Building. Physical 
Training and Supervised Ath- 
letics on the spacious school 
grounds. -:- -:- -:- 



Wm. B. Threapleton's Sons 

Manufacturers of 

Knit-Rite Ribbed 
Stockings 

Unequaled for Boy Scouts 

Howard and Huntingdon Streets 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

John F. Jelke Company 

JELKE 

HIGH GRADE 

BUTTERINE 



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238 Market Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



401 Liberty Ave. 
Pittsburgh 



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WICK NARROW FABRIC 
COMPANY 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



Hillcrest Lawns 

at 

OAKMONT STATION 

Haverford Township 



High School Suburb 

Sweet Quaint Homelike 

Four Minutes from Ardmore 
Twenty-seven minutes from 
Wanamaker's Store. 

High Location Quaint Homes 

Beautiful Lawn and Shade Trees 



OWNER 
JOSEPH R. CONNELL 

829 Land Title Building, Philadelphia 



Prompt Service. 



Expert Workmanship. 



Low Prices. 



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Index to Advertisements 



Aberfoyle Mfg. Co 97 

Allen Dyeing Co • 10S 

American Metal Stamping Co 100 

Atkinson Co., Wilmer 1 

Automatic Sprinkler Co. of America. . 102 

Barrow, W. Bruce 112 

Beam, Turner & Co 117 

Bell & Sons, Samuel 117 

Bickley & Son, A. F 118 

Bochmann & Co., F. A., Inc 109 

Bond Company, Charles 99 

Borden Stove Co 115 

Brandle & Smith Co 115 

Caledonian Dye Works, Inc 109 

Carver Co., C. R roo 

Cassella Color Co 112 

Clark, J. Alfred 99 

Council, Joseph R 120 

Connor, Martin F r 1 6 

Continental Dye Works 110 

Cope Knitting Mills 115 

Cox & Bro., Geo. S., Inc to8 

Crawford & Lehman ri8 

Crocker's Flour 117 

Curtis Publishing Co 2 

DeFrain Sand Co 105 

I >isston & Sons, Inc 98 

Drennen & Co., W. F 118 

I hinlap, 1 k C 112 

Dyer Quarry Co., John T 102 

Edson Brothers 117 

Ellison & Sons, John I! 707 

Felton, Sibley & Co., Tnc 114 

Firth & Foster Co im 

Foerderer, Roberl 1 1., Inc 104 

Foster & Sun-.. Jos. R 1 1 1 

Frankford Waste Co no 

Franklin Fire Ins. Co mi 

Fraternal Mystic Circle 101 

Freihofer Baking Co 113 

General Fire Extinguisher Co 102 

Girard Fire & Marine Ins. Co 101 

Globe I )ye Works Co 109 



Haines, Alfred C -. 118 

Hamilton, James M 105 

Hand, John E. & Sons Co 105 

Hansen, W. F 116 

Harris & Co., T. A 1 10 

Hires & Co., Chas. E 113 

Hodgson & Beatty 116 

Home Life Insurance Co 114 

Hoskins Company, Wm. H 113 

Hotel Bryson 103 

Hotel Hanover 103 

Hotel Rittenhouse 103 

Hunter & Dickson Co 100 

Hygienic Fleeced Underwear Co., Inc. 

2d Cover 
Insurance Company of the Slate of 

Pennsylvania 2d Cover 

Jelke Company, John F 119 

Kedward Dyeing Co., Wm 109 

Keystone Hardwood Floor Co 113 

Klebansky, Wolf ti8 

Lorimer s Sons Co., Wm. H 108 

Lupton's Son Co., David ico 

Margerison & Co., W. II. & A. E 1 1 1 

Marshall's School, Miss no 

Megowan, Thomas 116 

Miller Sons & Co., Jacob 115 

Mississippi Pearl Button Co 115 

Moss Rose Manufacturing Co 114 

Mullikin Co., Wm. T., Inc 117 

Mutual Fire Ins. Co, of Germantown.. ny 

Nice Eugene E 114 

Nicetown Dye Works m 

North Bros. Mfg. Co 99 

Ontario Dyeing Co., Inc 100 

Peerle s ( lompany 116 

Perl ins, E. Stanley 111 

Phila. Gear Works 105 

Philadelphia Tapestry Mills 1 1 1 

Phila. Textile Machinery Co 102 

Pillirg & Madeley, Inc no 

Plumb, Fayette R., Inc og 



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Read & Sons Co., Wm. F 106 

Richelieu Company 108 

Ring & Co., Mark D 107 

Risser Bros. Company 118 

Rittenhouse Hotel 103 

Roman Mosaic and Tile Co 112 

Rose Manufacturing Co 114 

Royle & Co., George 115 

Sheip & Vandegrift, Inc in 

Smith & Co., R. J 120 

Smith's Sons, Robert 1 14 

Standard Refrigerator Co 103 

Star & Crescent Co 107 

Swan & Co., W. F 11S 



Swoyer & Co.,, Joseph D 116 

Taubel Brothers 116 

Thomas, John 115 

Threapleton's Sons, Wm. B 119 

United Firemen's Insurance Co 101 

Vila Color Co., Inc 115 

Walton Sons, Jacob W 101 

Waters, D. F 10S 

Weightman-Penfield Estate 103 

Weimar Bros 107 

West End Trust Co 120 

Wick Narrow Fabric Co 120 

Wilson, J. P 117 

Zenith Mills 119 




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